Pacific Electric

Pacific Electric leased Baldwin switchers and roadswitchers from Southern Pacific. Trolley poles were added
to trigger crossing signals when operating on Pacific Electric's overhead wire system.

The following were leased by Pacific Electric from the SP at one time or another:
VO660: #1021-1022
VO1000: #1320-1329, 1374, 1377-1378
DRS6-6-1500: #5203, 5210, 5212
AS616: #5241, 5273-5275
- data source: "Southern Pacific Historic Diesels, Vol. 11, Baldwin Switchers & Roadswitchers" bibliography [27]

VO660

Pacific Electric 1021
photo credit: W. C. Whittaker
- collection of Mark Laundry
Oneonta tower, Los Angeles, CA
8/25/1951 		1021

VO660
c/n 62492, b/d 05/1941

- built for the Southern Pacific as #1021
- leased to Pacific Electric, 1948-1956
- scrapped 1962

VO1000

Pacific Electric 1322
photo credit: John Lawsa
- collection of Mark Laundry
Butte St. Yard, Los Angeles, CA
1/1949 		1322

VO1000
c/n 64198, b/d 07/1941

- built for the Southern Pacific as #1322
- leased to Pacific Electric
- scrapped by 1965



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