Trolley Tuesday 2/25/21 - Pacific Electric Maintenance of Way Equipment

We've spent the past month on this blog covering the many glamorous passenger cars (and freight locomotives) of what was once the nation's largest interurban railway, the Pacific Electric Railway (PE). However, a railway of this size is nothing without a means to maintain the one-thousand miles of track and wire at any time and with anything. Therefore, both the Los Angeles Shops of the "Old PE" and the Torrance Shops of the "New PE" had to get creative when it came to meeting the needs of the World's Wonderland Lines. On today's final Trolley Thursday of February, let's dip our bare hands in the grease bucket and look at the special and specialized maintenance-of-way cars that called the PE home.