Trolley Thursday 3/11/21 - The Los Angeles Railway Type "C" Sowbellies

One thing that set the Los Angeles Railway (LARy) apart from the Pacific Electric (PE) was a relative lack of streetcar nicknames. No cars were ever nicknamed after the areas they worked in (as they were expected to work on every single line of the system), nor did they have any notable eccentricities that set them apart enough to warrant a nickname. However, aside from the "termite squasher", there was one streetcar that did get a nickname and it turned out to be one of the most controversial, and certainly the most hated, streetcar type on the Los Angeles Railway. On today's Trolley Thursday, let's let the flanges squeal as we look at the history behind one of the LARy's most unique (and most maligned) streetcars, the Type "C"s, or "sowbellies" to shop crews.