interesting how local authorities made sure to eradicate so many entire streetcar networks in the 50s/60s, only to have to spend a fortune building new systems from scratch 30 years or so later. it's fortunate that so many volunteers have given their time & effort to preserve a few examples that we can appreciate now.
My Gramps Elliot, Granddad Goodman, and my Dad Skip Goodman. All 3 worked for PEI, I broke the family tradition. The Interurban were taken out. My Dad's Interurban is at OERM, as well as Grandpa's and Gramps's line cars. DAD'S MEMORIAL WAS AT OERM. The last time I rode a red car.
love to see one of these on the metro rail. thanks for posting. on edit : interesting tid bit. when paramount was filming the original star trek, paramount sound engineers went out to orange empire and recorded the sound of a tram starting and stopping . that sound was used when the enterprise went into warp.
Great place to go there and take the whole family out and have a picnic at one of the parks there and even take ride on the historic equipment out there.
In Los Angeles today the white and yellow buses are for local neighborhoods and also some go to Downtown Los Angeles. The red and orange buses are for interurban lines from Los Angeles to other towns and cities outside of Los Angeles. These are the descendants of the Los Angeles Railway and the Pacific Electric Railway trolley systems.
This museum is the thrid largest west of the Mississippi River and it is the only one that has three different sized rails 3ft 0 in Guage 3ft 6 in narrow Guage and 4 ft 8 in. standard Guage
I rode what was left of the PE as a kid living in Bellflower. The 418 is a pig, being one of the Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley cars with a top speed of only 35 mph even after field shunts were installed at Torrance shops. It also rides like crap. What I remember is the 314, the only NWP motor car which survives and will go about 60 mph and rides like a Cadillac as well as having the best brakes any car on PE ever had. I am glad the museum is there although I quit my membership after 46 years because they have too much equipment and no possibility of ever restoring most of it.
Just wanted to confirm with these electric trains, if the power goes out where they are, thse dont have anything in the way of backup batteries to keep them going, right??????
