Trolley Thursday 3/18/21 - The Los Angeles Railway Type "D" and "E" Funeral Cars

Street railway companies have always found different ways to gain more revenue, especially since so many of them often ran at a loss. These different revenue-makers included running dining service on their trains, owning the land their trains ran on and served, and even being made specifically for a grand entertainment center on the Great Salt Lake. Due to Henry Huntington's ownership of the Los Angeles Railway (LARy) basically funding itself, the company never saw need to do anything else but be a local downtown streetcar. That is, until death came knocking at its door with a simple proposition. On today's Trolley Thursday, you foolish mortals will enjoy a ride (not your final one) on board two of the LARy's most specifically-built cars on their fleet, and how the "Descanso" and "Paraiso" lived, died, and lived again.