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Built in 1923
by St. Louis Car Co.
 This
car is a typical California type car, part open, part
closed to allow for the prominent sunshine and the
occasional rain fall of southern Calif.
It is a narrow
gauge car from the city lines nicknamed the "yellow
cars", since they were of this color.
This
distinguished them from the red cars of the standard
gauge of the Pacific Electric Interurban lines.
It is
hard to believe that at one time LA had the largest
Interurban/ streetcar system in the US if not the world.
They were all gone by the 1960's. The last interurban line to close, in
1961, ran between LA and Long Beach. The last streetcar line
closed in 1963. In in 1990's the first rail transit line in LA opened, the Blue Line
between LA and Long Beach, mostly on the original PE
right of way.
Since then LA has opened up a short Red
subway line and the light rail Green Line. Maybe freeways
aren't everything.
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