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Pacific Electric Railway car on trestle past Rio Vista station on the Van Nuys line

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Title: Pacific Electric Railway car on trestle past Rio Vista station on the Van Nuys line
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952-12
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Pacific Electric Railway streetcar no. 5167 going over trestle on the Van Nuys line, in North Hollywood before the turnoff to Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. The sign on the front of the car says "Los Angeles." The car has passed the Rio Vista station, in the distance (unable to see in this image).
"Pacific Electric 5167 Rio Vista trestle Van Nuys line 12-22-1952." Title and date devised by cataloger based on notes on housing. Location determined by cataloger based on information about this station at www.pacificelectric.org. The Pacific Electric Railway system of electric streetcars and rail was also known as the Red Car system.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : color transparency ; film size 35m (slide format)
Identifier: photCL_555_01_344
486872
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20585
Subject: Local transit
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Street-railroads
Electric railroads--Cars
Photographs. (aat)
Place: North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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