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Title: Pacific Electric Railway cars on the Van Nuys line
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952-08
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 streetcars no. 5120 and no. 5112 on the Van Nuys line in the San Fernando Valley. The signs on the front of the cars say "Los Angeles" and there are stop signs and two people standing nearby.
"Pacific Electric 5120-5112 Wester Van Nuys line Aug. 1952"--text, handwritten on housing. Title and date devised by cataloger based on notes on housing. (Wester is probably a reference to Western District.) 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_335
486863
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20577
Subject: Local transit
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Street-railroads
Electric railroads--Cars
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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