Ex-Pacific Electric 716 is a Hollywood car built by Brill in 1925, and seen here on August 7 2004. It was rebuilt around 1940 with skirting and gained a flashy butterfly red-and-orange paint job it wore until retirement in 1960.

Traction Around North America in the Early-2000s

Orange Empire Railway Museum
Perris CA

Ex-Pacific Electric 716 is a Hollywood car built by Brill in 1925, and seen here on August 7 2004. It was rebuilt around 1940 with skirting and gained a flashy butterfly red-and-orange paint job it wore until retirement in 1960. This car was renumbered by PE as 5166, and later by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority as 1814.

Frank Hicks photo

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