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Title: Junkyard pile of Pacific Electric cars at Terminal Island
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
1953
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1962
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: Old Pacific Electric Railway streetcars with broken windows piled in a junkyard at Terminal Island in Los Angeles. Two workers stand near a large crane.
Title devised by cataloger. Location and date determined by information in: "Tracking the slow decline of the Pacific Electric Railway Red Cars," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2, 2016, and similar images in collection. 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 : print ; mount 28 x 35 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20372
Subject: Automobile graveyards
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--Cars
Trolley cars
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Terminal Island (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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