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"Yellow
Cars"
The Los Angeles Railway
Collection
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Featured Cars (click for more info): |
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| LARy 3001 | 3001 was the first PCC type car delivered to Los Angeles. It was unveiled in 1937 by L.A. Mayor Shaw and child film star Shirley Temple, in a ceremony in front of City Hall. |  |
| LARy Descanso | The Descanso was a trolley funeral car. It was chartered for use as a hearse, and saw service until 1924. |  |
| LARy 665 |
A classic 'Huntington Standard', the car that Los Angeles grew up with. At one time, Los Angeles Railway owned 747 cars of this type. |
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| LATL 1160 | Car 1160 is an example of a car which was rebuilt several times, with its current configuration bearing little resemblance to its original appearance. |  |
| LARy 1201 | A 'Type H' streetcar, LARy 1201 was the first in a series of 250 streetcars in this class, LARy's first steel double-truck cars. |  |
| LAMTA 3165 | 3165 is an all-electric PCC car. Built in 1948, LAMTA 3165 was the last streetcar acquired for operation in Los Angeles. |  |
| LARy 1559 | One of 82 'Type K' cars built in the LA Railway shops in 1925. The ‘Type K’ cars were constructed as clever wood copies of the all-steel ‘Type H’. |  |
| LATL 9350 | This car was used to work on the overhead trolley wire; it has a movable platform on its roof from which workers had easy access to the trolley wire. |  |
| Links: Tom Wetzel's LA Railway page Ed Vandeventer's Routes of the Los Angeles Railway Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California |
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The complete OERM Los Angeles Railway roster
- click car number for photos and additional information - |
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Streetcars: |
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| No. | Type | Builder | Built | Retired | Notes |
| Descanso | Funeral Car | LARy | 1909 | 1924 | Complete car |
| 7 | Type A-1 "Maggie" | St. Louis | 1895 | 1939 | body only, on trucks |
| 525 | Type BG "Standard" | St. Louis | 1906 | 1955 | operational |
| 665 | Type B "Standard" | St. Louis | 1911 | 1948 | operational |
| 744 | Type B-2 "Standard" | St. Louis | 1911 | 1945 | body only |
| 807 | Type B-2 "Standard" | St. Louis | 1911 | 1945 | body only |
| 836 | Type B-2 "Standard" | American | 1912 | 1945 | body only |
| 936 | Type C "Sowbelly" | St. Louis | 1914 | 1945 | body only, on trucks |
| 1003 | Type G Birney Car | American | 1920 | 1938 | body only |
| 1069 | Type G Birney Car | American | 1921 | 1946 | body only |
| 1160 | Type F-4 | LARy | 1923 | 1953 | operational |
| 1201 | Type H-4 | St. Louis | 1921 | 1955 | operational |
| 1423 | Type H-3 | St. Louis | 1924 | 1958 | operational |
| 1450 | Type H-3 | St. Louis | 1924 | 1958 | operational |
| 1559 | Type K-4 | LARy | 1925 | 1955 | operational |
| 2501 | Type L-1 Experimental | St. Louis | 1925 | 1955 | body only |
| 2601 | Type M-1 Experimental | St. Louis | 1930 | 1950 | restoration in progress |
| 3001 | Type P-1 PCC | St. Louis | 1937 | 1963 | operational |
| 3100 | Type P-2 PCC | St. Louis | 1943 | 1963 | operational |
| 3165 | Type P-3 PCC | St. Louis | 1948 | 1963 | operational |
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Work Cars: |
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| 9209 | Power Car (motor flat) | LARy | 1913 | 1951 | complete car |
| 9225 | 5-ton Derrick | LARy | 1912 | 1963 | operational |
| 9310 | Rail Grinder | LARy | 1925 | 1963 | complete car |
| 9350 | Tower Car | LARy | 1907 | 1963 | operational |
| 9351 | Line Construction Car | LARy | 1907 | 1954 | operational |
| 9614 | Flat Car | LARy | 1907 | 1955 | |
| 9615 | Flat Car | LARy | 1908 | 1955 | |
| 9550 | Shop Switcher | LARy | 1904 | 1959 | restoration in progress |
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This page was last updated on 11/16/05 |
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Laurel & Hardy "in another fine mess" sandwiched between two LA Railway Huntington Standards. Click photo to enlarge.
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