Los Angeles Railway
560 on Route V
July 30, 1949
No sowbelly survived the August, 1947, decimation of car lines, so this picture cannot be 1949.  I'd be certain that it is 1947, given the choice.  I think the car is northbound at 7th.  Notice the LATL-colored dash sign on a car still in LARy paint.  However, only one sowbelly
received the fruit salad paint scheme.
I understand that Orange Empire finally found and arranged for a sowbelly body in Baldwin Park to be retrieved and saved.  I didn't look for it when I was last there (in January), so I have no first hand knowledge.  I do know that when we started saving cars long ago (early 1950s), we looked long and hard for a type C and followed every lead we could, and nothing materialized.  That was not surprising, really, because LATL management did everything it could to disabuse the public of interest in the cars.  They even gave one away to a woman as a prize for her theory on the origin of the "Kilroy" legend.  Gave it away, mind you!  All in the name of humiliation.  That was about three years before the first traction group in LA was formed.
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