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The historic Pacific Electric Building (also known as the Huntington Building, after the railway’s founder, Henry Huntington, or simply 6th & Main), opened in 1905 in the core of Los Angeles as the main train station for the Pacific Electric Railway, as well as the company's headquarters; Main Street Station served passengers boarding trains for the south and east of Southern California.
Pacific Electric & Salt Lake Railroad station in Long Beach, 1905 Pacific Electric Building, Located at Sixth and Main Streets was the Pacific Electric's principal station. The view shows platforms and umbrella sheds east of Los Angeles Street, the tracks at this point being elevated some 16 feet (4.9 m) above the level of the street.
Caricature image of Thornton Fitzhugh. Thornton Fitzhugh (1864–1933) [1] was an American architect. [2] Among his major works are the Beaux Arts and Romanesque Pacific Electric Building in downtown Los Angeles, California, and a number others which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The terminal was moved to the Pacific Electric Building in 1905, and trains were rerouted over the newly built elevated trackage west of San Pedro Street in 1917. [9] The service was designated line 6. [10] Skip-stop limited trains were eliminated between February and November 1944. [11]
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The Sawtelle Line was an interurban railway route primarily operated by the Pacific Electric Railway that ran between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California.The line was established by the Pasadena and Pacific Railway between 1896 and 1901, with passenger service running until 1940.
La Habra–Fullerton–Yorba Linda Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Yorba Linda. [1] Passenger services ran between 1911 and 1938. Initial plans were for the route to continue further east to form a second main line between Los Angeles and San Bernardino, though these would go unfulfilled.
The line, among the electric railway's final expansions, [1] was not originally intended for passenger service unless a connection to Orange was completed. Despite this, the route was opened for service in 1917. [a] [2] [3] Pacific Electric spent $425,000 on the extension from La Habra to Fullerton ($10.1 million in 2023 adjusted for inflation ...