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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. — Download original ↓

c. 1950 to 1958

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

Date: c. 1950 to 1958Estimated from the photograph; no date was written on the print.
Vehicle: Interurban car
Operator: Pacific Electric Railway
Fleet numbers: Pacific Electric Railway 416

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