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Title: PE Streetcar accident
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Collison of this Pacific Electric express car an an auto was so powerful that the car knocked the express car off track at San Gariel and Ramona Blvds in Rosemead. Plunging forward for 250 more feet after impact, the derailed car sheared of a huge power pole (background). The car was demolished and the driver is in critical condition. Photo dated: December 29, 1952.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067004
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2203.
CARL0000070542
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27231
Subject: Pacific Electric Railway Company
Railroad accidents--California--Rosemead
Street-railroads--California--Rosemead
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Rosemead
Electric railroads--California--Rosemead
Rosemead (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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