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Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale Railway: UP: 1889 1891 Los Angeles Terminal Railway: Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: UP: 1916 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad: SP: 1876 1888 Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad: ATSF: 1883 1887 California Central Railway: Los Angeles and ...
(Los Angeles) CWT Pacific Surfliner: 38,353 Los Angeles Department of Transportation: Metrolink: Ventura County: Chico^ Chico: CIC Coast Starlight: 25,250 City of Chico Amtrak Thruway: 3 Colfax^ Colfax: COX California Zephyr: 5,214 Amtrak Thruway: 20 Colonel Allensworth State Park: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park: CNL San Joaquin: No data
The Los Angeles Cable Railway (later named the Pacific Cable Railway, and incorporated in Illinois) [7] owned many exclusive franchises (agreements with the city to use public streets for transportation purposes) and by 1889 had constructed four major cable lines crisscrossing the growing downtown area, from Jefferson and Grand to East Los ...
The San Diego Electric Railway, founded by John D. Spreckels in 1892, was the major transit system in the San Diego area during that period. In the Los Angeles area, real estate tycoon Henry Huntington established both the Los Angeles Railway, also known as the Yellow Car system, and the above-mentioned Pacific Electric Red Car
In the early 1870s, the new Cerro Gordo in the Owens Valley area of Inyo County, California, were producing a considerable amount of silver.In order for it to be shipped to San Francisco, the bullion was first transported by freight wagons to Los Angeles, loaded onto the Southern Pacific Railroad and transported to Wilmington where it was finally loaded onto steamers headed to San Francisco.
Travel Town Museum is a railway museum dedicated on December 14, 1952, and located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park.The history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s is the primary focus of the museum's collection, with an emphasis on railroading in Southern California and the Los Angeles area.
The California Southern, California Central and Redondo Beach Railway companies were consolidated into the Southern California Railway on November 7, 1889. [27] The California Central had consolidated with the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad in 1887, giving it ROW through the San Gabriel Valley. The Santa Fe finally purchased ...
With the completion of the main line to Los Angeles on September 9, 1876, the Southern Pacific Railway had a complete monopoly on Los Angeles rail transportation, in the city area and to the harbor. This would go on to be broken by the arrival of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to the ports in the 1920s, though the San Pedro Branch ...