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The Los Angeles Pacific Railroad (1896−1911) (LAP) was an electric public transit and freight railway system in Los Angeles County, California. At its peak it had 230 miles (370 km) of track extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside , Santa Monica , and the South Bay towns along Santa Monica Bay .
In 1902, Huntington and banker Isaias W. Hellman established the Pacific Electric Railway, which would acquire other railways, providing interurban service to new suburban developments and surrounding towns in what is now Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino County and Riverside Counties). The company operated distinctive ...
Historical Society of Long Beach Museum Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Local history [16] Huntington Library: San Marino: San Gabriel Valley: Multiple: Library, art collection, historic Beaux-Art mansion and botanical gardens Hurst Ranch Historical Center West Covina: San Gabriel Valley: Agriculture
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Los Angeles: 11 September 1910 1915 Located in Laurel Canyon. The first commercial trolleybus system in the United States. [4] [5] [6] Later, there were 1922 and 1937 demonstrations of newer vehicles. [1] [7] [a] Los Angeles Transit Lines (1947–58); Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (1958–63) [6] 3 August 1947 30 March 1963 Lines 2 ...
The Toronto Transit Commission maintains the most extensive system in the Americas (in terms of total track length, number of cars, and ridership).. Streetcars or trolley(car)s (American English for the European word tram) were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns.
San Diego Model Railroad Museum; San Francisco Cable Car Museum; San Francisco Railway Museum; San Jose Steam Railroad Museum; San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Clara Transit Center; Santa Susana Depot; South Bay Historical Railroad Society; South Coast Railroad Museum; Southern California Railway Museum
The Sawtelle Streetcar Depot is located on the grounds of the Sawtelle Veterans Home in Sawtelle, in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California. The depot was designed by J. Lee Burton in 1900, in conjunction with the nearby Wadsworth Chapel also on the Veterans Home campus. [2] Both were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in ...