Very nice. I've been a member for many years, but haven't been able to go out for awhile. That would have been a good day to be there and celebrate my birthday that day. They are improving the property all the time. Hope you became a member. Have a great new year. Bob
@Craig F. Thompson The Regional Connector is being built as a subway to connect the Blue, Expo, and Gold lines light rail together and the Purple line heavy rail subway is being extended beyond Wilshire Western station. There already trains in Los Angeles but I agree that the original Pacific Electric Red cars and Yellow cars can be rebuilt in some areas.
Many thanks for the cool video. I never knew about this railway museum, but now I want to go visit. Maybe they need to publicize it more widely or something.
What actually is very disappointing about this the San Pedro Port authority spent about 15 million dollars of this program which is a very wonderful program unfortunately the city of San Pedro basically said that the main road to and from the port was going to have to be redone and the new configuration was going to basically obliterate the existing right of way so that basic I put an end to the program in 2017 It was estimated it would cost around 40 to 50 million dollars to restore the mile and a 1/2 of track that were tore up for the changes to the roadway
Does everyone just parrot what they hear? Harry Huntington built Pacific Electric to sell properties in far flung areas of LA. People move to cars for convenience not because the was some "conspiracy" among car manufacturers. People voted their choice to get rid of a POS street car/trolley system because it was a POS and moved to something that saved a lot of time and hassle......CARS. Also, you did a good job on the video, this museum isn't far from me. And for those interested, in the short future the trains in this museum will be able to travel to the new Perris Metrolink station. So sometime in the future you can ride the Metrolink to Perris and catch a museum train at that station and ride it to the museum. The new Perris Valley Line cost $250 MILLION dollars to go about 24 miles, about $10Million/mile, which will never pay for itself. Another reason the mythical magical "Red Car" failed, it NEVER made any money.
Nice to see that some red cars and orange cars were preserved and kept running.
Very nice. I've been a member for many years, but haven't been able to go out for awhile. That would have been a good day to be there and celebrate my birthday that day. They are improving the property all the time. Hope you became a member.
Have a great new year.
Bob
Hope they bring the street car back to LA,and build replicas of the old yellow cars.
I hate to tell you this but that will never happen!!!!
@Craig F. Thompson The Regional Connector is being built as a subway to connect the Blue, Expo, and Gold lines light rail together and the Purple line heavy rail subway is being extended beyond Wilshire Western station. There already trains in Los Angeles but I agree that the original Pacific Electric Red cars and Yellow cars can be rebuilt in some areas.
This photogapher has a thing for rail squeal on a sharp curve.
Many thanks for the cool video. I never knew about this railway museum, but now I want to go visit. Maybe they need to publicize it more widely or something.
I believe the one you were featuring was known as a " Hollywood Car "
Glad those cars are still running. Nice catches Snuffy
This was V-E-R-Y Cool!!!! I hope you go BACK and do MORE video's from that place. I like those "by-gone era" Vids...:)
Hope I get to go there someday.
very nice video!!!
We wish you and your family a happy 2012. ;)
Nice!! ive been here before, i was really young.
Classic American history!
The Los Angeles Railway cars are/were yellow, not orange, BTW.
they are like trams in calcutta
Great Video Snuffy!
Red Car Conductor-What do I Look like, A Bank?
Roger Rabbit
The real stars of LA are the street cars...
GM runs it and insists it must sound LOUD AND SQUEAKY AND UNCOMFORTABLE AND BUMPY AND HOT AND HUMID ETC!
I like how it's black and white.
Hey Snuffy didn't the cars like the ones at 5:15 go into the bay area too?
Good stuff
what was that tall tram #9225?
Great job Snuffy, got dammit...
Cool..
What ever happened to 8726? Last picture I saw of it was taken in 2009. I hope it wasn't scrapped.
If anyone wants to see the last pacific electric line I think there's one line in San Pedro [edit] just found out that it shut down
Imagine running them on the modern LRT lines...
my ears
What actually is very disappointing about this the San Pedro Port authority spent about 15 million dollars of this program which is a very wonderful program unfortunately the city of San Pedro basically said that the main road to and from the port was going to have to be redone and the new configuration was going to basically obliterate the existing right of way so that basic I put an end to the program in 2017
It was estimated it would cost around 40 to 50 million dollars to restore the mile and a 1/2 of track that were tore up for the changes to the roadway
Does everyone just parrot what they hear? Harry Huntington built Pacific Electric to sell properties in far flung areas of LA. People move to cars for convenience not because the was some "conspiracy" among car manufacturers. People voted their choice to get rid of a POS street car/trolley system because it was a POS and moved to something that saved a lot of time and hassle......CARS.
Also, you did a good job on the video, this museum isn't far from me. And for those interested, in the short future the trains in this museum will be able to travel to the new Perris Metrolink station. So sometime in the future you can ride the Metrolink to Perris and catch a museum train at that station and ride it to the museum. The new Perris Valley Line cost $250 MILLION dollars to go about 24 miles, about $10Million/mile, which will never pay for itself. Another reason the mythical magical "Red Car" failed, it NEVER made any money.
Interesting info.
How does a freeway make any money?
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.