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"Yellow
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The Los Angeles Railway
Collection
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Featured Cars (click for more info): |
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| LARy Descanso | The Descanso was a trolley funeral car. It was chartered for use as a hearse, and saw service until 1924. |  |
| LARy 525 |
A classic 'Huntington Standard', the car that Los Angeles grew up with. Since 2003, this car has been undergoing restoration by a group of the Museum's dedicated volunteers. |
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| 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. |  |
| LARy 2601 | One of two experimental “Type M” streetcars intended to be prototypes for a large order of new cars that never came |  |
| 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 3100 | The LA Railway needed more equipment to handle the greatly increased wartime traffic and ordered 30 PCC streetcars (including this one) in May, 1942 |  |
| 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 9225 | This car is a self-propelled crane car (a.k.a. "derrick") that operated in Los Angeles for more than 50 years. |
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| 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. |  |
| LATL 9351 | This car was used to build overhead trolley wire; in addition to having a rooftop platform to provide workers with access to the wire it has plenty of room to carry tools and supplies. |  |
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Links: Los Angeles Railway Video Snapshot Ed Vandeventer's Routes of the Los Angeles Railway Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California Los Angeles Transit History Archive from the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library (Metro) 1920s map of Los Angeles Railway, On Line Archive of California Google Earth map of LA Railway routes, link from the California Trolleys Yahoo Group, draft by Jack McKinnon (Requires Google Earth to view)
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