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Westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line at Ocean Park - July 17, 1953301 viewsAlan Weeks took this photo of PERY car 5117 at Ocean Park near the end of the Air Line during a Sunday charter trip. On October 13, 2008, he wrote, that "someone knew no regular trains ran on Sunday, so [he] used the track for a parking lot. I think someone got the door open and we moved it."
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Westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line west of Palms Depot - July 17, 1953271 viewsSanta Monica Air Line car 5117, probably below Exposition Boulevard (now Northvale Road) on June 20, 1953. Photograph by Alan Weeks.
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Santa Monica Air Line near Palms - June 20, 1953265 viewsPacific Electric Railway (PERY) Engine 1607.
On October 13, 2003, photographer Alan Weeks was unsure if the train was eastbound or westbound.
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Northbound on Sepulveda near Santa Monica Boulevard (West L. A. Junction) - April 11, 1953261 viewsPacific Electric Railway (PERY) Engines 1620-1631-1326 (1326 is a diesel engine)
Sign in upper left appears to read "South Los Angeles."
Photograph by Alan Weeks
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Westbound on the Old Beverly Hills Santa Monica Line, near Sepulveda (West L.A. Junction) - June 20, 1953259 viewsPacific Electric Railway (PERY) Engine 1613
Photo by Alan Weeks
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Air Line crossing over Motor Avenue Bridge247 viewsDuring much of the Twentieth Century, the Exposition Right of Way carried "Red Cars." This electrified rail line was called the Santa Monica Air Line, signifying the most direct line between central Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
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Westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line over Motor Avenue - September 27, 1953247 viewsThis Alan Weeks photograph shows Pacific Electric car 1299 on a charted club trip. In 2008, he wrote:
"This line was de-electrified one month later. A private car belonged to the officials of the P.E.R.Y.
It had leather chairs, a kitchen, bathroom and carpets."
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Westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line at USC - May 9, 1948246 viewsAlan Weeks' photograph of Pacific Electric Railway Cars 1216 & 1371 at the University of Southern California.
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Westbound on the Santa Monica Air Line at Ocean Park - July 17, 1953233 viewsPERY Car 5117 at Ocean Park near the end of the Air Line.
Photo by Alan Weeks
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Eastbound on the Santa Monica Air Line near Palms Depot - June 20, 1953 229 viewsAlan Weeks photographed Engine 1617 eastbound on the Santa Monica Air Line near Palms Depot. On October 13, 2008, he wrote "I had forgotten that there really were palm trees at Palms Station."
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Pacific Electric Railway Car 5028 turning south in Santa Monica headed toward Ocean Park 223 viewsPhotographer Alan Weeks wrote in 2007: These modern PCC [Presidents' Conference Committee] type cars were almost never seen on this line. These cars were used exclusively on the Glendale-Burbank Line. The Sears Santa Monica store parking lot is on this spot today, near 4th Street and Colorado Avenue. He dated his entry May 9, 1948, but the photo name indicates February 22, 1953.
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