Los Angeles Railway
47 on Route V at Monroe
July 30, 1947
Distinctly Los Angeles,
and distinctly a mistake, for they could never be operated as one-man cars.
These were the cars that I first knew in Los Angeles. Compare the
body lines with those of the B class (Standards) and you will see a great
similarity. That should be so, for
many of these class C cars
were in fact rebuilt by LARy at the South Park Shops from class Bs.
Many Bs had two motors, most
Cs had four motors. There are quite a few hills in Los Angeles, and
the sight of two-motor Standards or Sowbellies grinding up some of those
hills was memorable. Did the sand sometimes
fly!
Caption comments by Ken
Harrison
Robert McVay photo
Joe Testagrose collection
