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A vintage red electric interurban streetcar on a city street, surrounded by 1950s cars, palm trees, and multi-story buildings.

A Pacific Electric Railway interurban car, number 1541, known as the 'Long Beach Limited', runs on a street through a city with palm trees and mid-century automobiles. c. 1947 to 1953

A red wooden interurban car with round porthole windows on its front end, numbered 416 and carrying a San Pedro sign, sits at a street crossing beneath a web of trolley wires, with apartment buildings and a ship chandlery building behind it.

Pacific Electric interurban car 416, signed for San Pedro, crossing a street under heavy overhead wire. c. 1950 to 1958

A yellow and cream Pacific Electric PCC streetcar with the number 28 on its front is driving down a busy street lined with 1950s cars and businesses like Sinclair Paints and Downtown Bakery.

A Pacific Electric PCC streetcar, number 28, travels down a Los Angeles street in the early 1950s, surrounded by automobiles and storefronts. c. 1950 to 1953

A dark blue Pacific Electric Railway electric locomotive numbered 1622 is coupled to a brown caboose on a street with overhead wires.

Pacific Electric Railway electric locomotive 1622, a C-1 class unit, is seen coupled to a caboose on a street-running track. June 1952 · Torrance, CA

A red wooden interurban car with round end windows and a trolley pole rounds a curve at a multi-track junction under a dense web of overhead wires, with a red wooden car parked beside a white building at right.

Pacific Electric interurban car 435 at Dominguez Jct. October 1952 · Dominguez Jct.

A two-car red interurban train with round end windows and trolley poles crosses a paved street under overhead wires, with a Shell billboard at left and a stop sign at right.

Pacific Electric car 413 leads a two-car train through a street crossing, likely in Long Beach, California, in the late 1950s. June 10, 1954 · Long Beach, CA

A red and yellow electric car with a trolley pole crosses a long wooden and steel trestle high above a street, with power lines and a blue sky with clouds above.

A red Pacific Electric car crosses the Fletcher Drive Trestle in Los Angeles. February 25, 1955 · Fletcher Drive Trestle, Los Angeles, CA

A red streetcar with a trolley pole crosses a long trestle with timber and steel spans against a blue sky. Utility poles and wires stand above it, a stucco building is at lower left, and a street with cars is at lower right.

A Pacific Electric Railway PCC streetcar crosses the Fletcher Drive Trestle above a city street. February 25, 1955 · Fletcher Drive Trestle, Los Angeles, CA

Two red and orange electric cars with yellow winged emblems on their fronts stand side by side under overhead wires, signed Subway Terminal, with hills in the background.

Pacific Electric Railway cars 5004 and 5007 side by side, both signed for Subway Terminal. March 2, 1955 · Burbank, CA

Two red interurban cars with round end windows and trolley poles stand on a yard track under a web of overhead wires, with a red and white bus, a parked car and oil derricks in the distance.

Pacific Electric Railway interurban car 498 and a second car stand in a yard under trolley wire, with oil derricks behind, likely at Long Beach, California. March 7, 1955 · Long Beach, CA

A dark blue Pacific Electric Railway electric locomotive number 1626, with yellow and black safety stripes, sits on a track in a yard next to a large building.

Pacific Electric Railway electric locomotive #1626, a boxcab, is pictured in a yard setting under clear skies. August 1955 · 8th St. Yds

A dark green Pacific Electric electric locomotive numbered 1622, with a yellow and black striped front, is parked on a street under overhead wires, with a tan passenger car partially visible behind it.

Pacific Electric electric locomotive number 1622, a Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcab, stands on a street under overhead wires. March 22, 1957 · West Hollywood, CA

A red interurban car with round front windows runs on street track past a palm tree and tall white buildings, with 1950s cars in the traffic behind it.

Interurban car 1541, likely Pacific Electric, signed LONG BEACH LIMITED in street running past palm trees, the Roxy theater and the Hotel Schuyler, likely in downtown Long Beach, California. March 9, 1958 · Downtown, Long Beach, CA

A vintage red interurban streetcar with the number 1541 and 'LONG BEACH LIMITED' written on its front travels down a city street lined with palm trees and 1950s cars.

A red Pacific Electric Master Unit interurban car, number 1541, named 'LONG BEACH LIMITED', runs on a city street in Long Beach, California, in the 1950s. March 9, 1958 · Long Beach, CA

A white Pacific motor bus with green and red stripes, number 67, parked on a wet street on an overcast day, with a blue bus partially visible behind it.

A Pacific motor bus, number 67, parked on a street. c. 1980 to 2000

Side view of two diesel locomotives in a gravel yard: a red and black C&NW GP30r with number 5303, and a yellow Pacific Electric SW1200 with number 712, under a gray sky.

A Chicago and North Western GP30r and a Pacific Electric SW1200 locomotive are shown side by side in a railroad yard under an overcast sky. August 2000 · Lake and Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL

A side view of an orange CP Rail diesel locomotive numbered 5727, standing in a rail yard at dusk with a black Norfolk Southern freight car and a yellow locomotive in the background.

CP Rail locomotive 5727, an EMD GP38-2, is seen in a rail yard at dusk, with a Norfolk Southern freight car and another locomotive nearby. November 2000 · Lake and Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL