Pacific Electric
Remembering the Red Cars
Volume 3: Northern District
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The Red Car Empire Comes to Life
Transportation shapes cities. And no modern city owes more to a single mode of transit than Los Angeles owes to its famous Red Cars.
Justifiably revered as the world's greatest interurban, the Pacific Electric's vast empire has required three video volumes to cover it in detail. Volume 3 features the Northern District, plus Special New Year's Day and racetrack trains, and RPO/ Box Motor operations in all 3 PE districts.
The seven lines which provided the District's passenger services (Watts-Sierra Vista, Alhambra-Temple City, two Pasadena Lines, Sierra Madre, Monrovia-Glendora and San Bernardino Lines) are all represented in this mostly color odyssey. Revisit PE's largest and busiest district and savor the sights and sounds of the big red tens, elevens, twelve hundreds and RPO / boxmotors burnishing over one hundred miles of electrified trackage in the busy decade of the 1940s.
70 Minutes, color and black & white, full sound track.
Order code PE2, approximately 70 minutes, mostly color, full soundtrack... $39.95.
Other Pacific Electric interurban titles:
Web links
The Orange Empire Railway Museum has dozens of Pacific Electric cars, some of which you can ride. There is also a brief history of the PE, and some links.
If you are interested in further exploring the PE's history, these sites will get you started:
The Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California (The link to the Pacific Electric page is about in the middle of this page.)
The Red Cars of Los Angeles at USC.
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