California car (streetcar)

They were also used in other climates to provide separate outdoor smoking and enclosed non-smoking areas.

In 1888, the California Street Cable Railroad Company commissioned a new car from John L. Hammond and Co., with two open ends and a center enclosed section.

Henry Huntington’s engineers developed a standard streetcar design in the California car style in 1902 for his Los Angeles Railway (LARy).

The cars were featured in early silent movies, becoming indelibly linked in moviegoers’ minds with southern California.

The single-ended type has a single open section at the front of the car, with a closed compartment at the rear, whilst the double-ended type has a central closed compartment with an open area at each end.