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Post by espeefoamer on Apr 8, 2009 17:25:59 GMT -5
On this date in 1961,the last train ran on the PE Long Beach line.This was the last PE line to shut down.   |
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Post by thespcaboose on Jul 20, 2009 0:24:33 GMT -5
WOW!! What a history lesson. I was 6 years old then.
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Post by espeefoamer on Jul 20, 2009 1:27:32 GMT -5
WOW!! What a history lesson. I was 6 years old then. I was 9. |
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Post by Enzo Fortuna on Jul 20, 2009 2:36:24 GMT -5
Well ... I win! I was 10!
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Post by espeelover on Jul 20, 2009 18:01:35 GMT -5
Well ... I win! I was 10! Sorry Enzo, but my mom and I rode one of the last trains down to Long Beach and back; after that we used to take LA Railways (or whatever that was called) into downtown LA to go shopping. Once my mom learned to drive in 1964, then we went by car and no more train watching...bummer! |
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Post by sptrain98 on Dec 5, 2010 3:22:00 GMT -5
That's not quite true. It was the last LAMTA, ex-PE, line to shut down. The last actual PE rail passenger operation was the Santa Monica Air Line, which was not conveyed to Jesse Haw-Haw, and therefore operated by PE until (IIRC) October 17, 1953, seventeen days after the MCL purchase of all the other PE passenger services. To have ridden the last PE passenger operation, you have to have been on that run (which went only to 11th Ave., incidentally, thanks to the city PUC's tardiness in approving the application to discontinue. BTW, I was on that run.  |
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Post by jimbaker on Jan 1, 2018 14:29:03 GMT -5
Yes, I was on the very last car the 'morning' of April 8th, 1961, It was the ERHA-SC (formerly SC-ERA) excursion that arrived in Long Beach at 4:00 AM. The very last car to arrive was the line car 00164 which ran over about 50 torpedoes spaced along the track at Morgan Yard. --Jim Baker
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