Los Angeles Railway
525 at Lamar & Gibons
The date is 3/27/55, and the occasion is the fantrip honoring the last run of a Huntington Standard in Los Angeles.  We needed three cars to carry the load (with passengers moving between the three cars), so we used the 525, which is now at Orange Empire in almost weekly service, the 1247, seen in the background, and (PCC) 3062, which couldn't go everywhere because it was, of course, single end.
The Lamar St. trackage itself is interesting.  It was never part of a regular car route, but was built to serve the SP Los Angeles General Shops.  At shift changes, certain cars on the Main Street line (at this time, the 8 line) would short turn to Lamar and Gibbons to accomodate
the workers.
Gone now, the LA General Shops were the place where many a steam locomotive was shopped (or later, scrapped), and where in the early 1950s, PE equipment no longer needed was taken to be stripped of usable parts before being scrapped.  I obtained (legally, I must say) a lot of incidental parts, such as an Ohmer Fare Register, that have ultimately found there way into the continuing collection at Orange Empire.  It was a special place, in a special time.
The Eclipse Fender on the 525 was retrofitted for the occasion.
Caption comments from Ken Harrison
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