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Orange Empire Railway Museum

Posted by Nathan Masters on Aug 9, 2010

A Pacific Electric Red Car on Hollywood Boulevard on April 11, 1953. Photo: Robert B. Peterson. Orange Empire Railway Museum Library.

One of the ironies of Los Angeles history is that a city synonymous with freeway and automobile traffic once transported its residents over the largest regional rail transit system in the world.

Today, Los Angeles is redefining itself yet again by aggressively building a new rail transit… Read more »

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