This silent film shows a special “boosters club” trip on the Pacific Electric Railroad in Los Angeles. Combination car #1375 is shown at :11 at a carbarn, most likely the downtown Pacific Electric Building, flanked by #1225 and #1612 (:21). At 3:25 interurban car 1200 (lead car in the 1200 class) rumbles by. At 4:01 car 1375 is shown parked. At 5:41 Pacific Electric city car #103 — with Highland displayed in the destination box — is shown. The Highland railroad station is visible at 5:55.At 6:59 car #1134 is shown. At 7:10 a trolley comes by bound for Pomona.

The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County.

The system shared dual gauge track with the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway, “Yellow Car,” or “LARy” system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal), on 4th Street, and along Hawthorne Boulevard south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne, Gardena, and Torrance.

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