Less-than-carload boxcars in L.A.

Less-than-carload boxcars in L.A.

By Angela Cotey | March 22, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Boxcars at freight house

Boxcars assigned to less-than-carload (LCL) service — including several Southern Pacific “Overnight” boxcars — are being loaded on parallel tracks at Pacific Electric’s 8th Street Freight Station in Los Angeles in the 1940s. PE was an SP subsidiary.

Pacific Electric

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