PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN 2000

In the summer of 1990, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (LAMTA) debuted their "new" Los Angeles-Long Beach light rail line. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the rail line in July of 2000 the LAMTA painted two of their light rail cars in the Pacific Electric renowned 'Butterfly' red and orange paint scheme. It was done to honor the memory of the "World's Greatest Interurban Railway" that provided passenger rail service on the same route from 1903 until 1961.
The cars remained in this distinctive livery for several years. Despite calls from large numbers of the public to paint the entire fleet in this heritage design, the LAMTA elected to return the vehicles to standard paint style.

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[tennsurfr]

No - they got rid of this tribute paint scheme several years ago - it was only applied to these two cars.

[tennsurfr]

This was recorded on 7/9/2000 at the LAMTA Del Amo shops and in downtown Long Beach.

[microbusss]

sweet! Hope someone makes this in HO scale We all know what killed the PE & every trolley line GM, Standard Oil & Firestone & we wonder WHY we have traffic problems? Blame them =P

[AG3304]

Nice to see that,shame they didn't paint the whole fleet like that !

[SuperVillaTube]

do they still run the trains with this livery on the blue line?

[sanchezv8]

i just that horn its the best too bad there now all white