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Pacific Electric lines emanating from Downtown Los Angeles, 1917. The following passenger rail lines were operated by the Pacific Electric Railway and its successors from the time of its merger in 1911 until the last line was abandoned in 1961. One count indicated that the company and its successors operated as many as 143 different routes in ...
Pacific Electric Inland Empire Trail, Fontana Car #1734 served as the Red Car Museum between 1981 and 2021, [51] [52] at the corner of Main Street and Electric Avenue in Seal Beach, California. The Pacific Electric Trail is a 21-mile (34 km) rail trail that has been constructed along the former Upland–San Bernardino Line.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad ('Pacific' was not added to the title until incorporation in 1927) electrified two of its mountainous divisions using a DC overhead system. [18] The two divisions were widely separated from each other, but plans to electrify the intervening 212 miles (341 km), the relatively flat Idaho Division from ...
Pacific Electric Railway [2] 1902 1961 Peninsular Railway [2] 1910 1934 Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad [2] 1904 1932 Sacramento Northern Railway [1] [2] 1905 1941 Earlier Northern Electric Railway, Northern Electric Railway—Marysville and Colusa Branch, Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway, and San Francisco–Sacramento Railroad
The Santa Monica Air Line was an interurban railroad operated by the Pacific Electric between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles. Electric passenger service operated over the line between 1908 and 1953. [2] After abandonment as a freight railroad, most of the route was converted to light rail for use by the Metro E Line.
In 1894, the Pasadena & Los Angeles Electric Railway purchased, re-gauged, electrified, and double-tracked a section of the line for streetcar use. [4] Service began on May 6, 1895. [5] Pacific Electric acquired the route in 1898. The line was again rebuilt to standard gauge with service between Pasadena and Los Angeles beginning in December 1902.
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.
June 1946 brought the last incarnation of the line. By mid-1948, Pacific Electric had purchased the requisite Southern Pacific Railroad lines to allow them to move freight to Newport and Huntington without the trip through Long Beach and Sunset Beach. [7] Commodore service lasted seasonally until September 1949, its final run. The last ...