Tag Archives: Trains and Railways
Santa Fe Railway station, Pasadena, California, 1961
Here’s a slice of American life that not many of us experience anymore – train travel. This is the Santa Fe railway’s station at Pasadena, California in 1961. The guy in the red cap is a porter to help you … Continue reading
A Southern Pacific night train in Glendale, California, by Richard Steinheimer (1950)
Here’s a film noir shot if ever I saw one, taking us back to the days when train travel was the rule, rather than the exception. This is a Southern Pacific night train in Glendale taken in 1950 by Richard … Continue reading
Union Station at night, downtown Los Angeles, 1956
It’s atmospheric photos like these that makes it easy for us to see how the whole film noir thing came into being. This is Los Angeles’ main railway terminus, Union Station, one foreboding night in 1956. I’m almost surprised we … Continue reading
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Advertisement: Introducing the California Zephyr (1949-1970)
The California Zephyr – featuring Vista-Dome cars Daily between Chicago – Denver – Salt Lake City – San Francisco
Advertisement for Pacific Electric Railway’s Trolley Tours through Sunny Southern California, 1914
from the September, 1914 issue of “Sunset” magazine.
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1925 map of the Pacific Electric public transportation network
Click on the map to get a larger view, then click again for an even larger view.
Turquoise Room lounge car on the Santa Fe’s Super Chief train.
The flagship train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was the service between Chicago and Los Angeles, called the Super Chief. They called it “The Train of the Stars” because of the celebrities who took it, often from … Continue reading
Harvey House restaurant, Los Angeles Union Station, 1939
Harvey House was a chain railroad meal stops along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway line. The last stop on that line was Los Angeles and at Union Station, and as we can see from this 1939 photo, the … Continue reading
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Waiting room of Los Angeles Union Station, 1939
There are few buildings left in Los Angeles that look pretty much as they did when they were first built. The waiting room at LA’s Union Station is one of them. This photo was taken in 1939, the year it … Continue reading
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