Trolley Tuesday 3/16/21 - The Los Angeles Railway Type "H" Steel City Cars

Over the course of this blog, we've tracked the steady pattern of streetcar, interurban, and rapid transit companies switching from wooden car construction to steel construction. Most companies shifted during the 1910s, following improved methods of steel casting and construction. Early steel streetcar designs were some of the most iconic of the of the twentieth century, from Blimps, to Hollywoods, and even New York City subway cars. The Los Angeles Railway (LARy) was one of the latest adopters of steel cars, their first arrived from the St. Louis Car Company in 1921. However, these cars are no less important or significant in the Yellow Car roster, and so today's Trolley Tuesday will be spend discussing the wonderful, the stalwart, and the iconic LARy Type "H" steel city cars.