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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.
Red cars at the Pacific Electric Building, c. 1910. In the first half of the 20th century, Southern California had an extensive privately owned rail transit network with over 1,200 miles (1,900 km) of track at its peak, used by the interurban cars of the Pacific Electric ("Red Cars") and streetcars of the Los Angeles Railway ("Yellow Cars").
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 ...
The Hollywood Subway, as it is most commonly known, officially the Belmont Tunnel, was a subway tunnel used by the interurban streetcars (the "Red Cars") of the Pacific Electric Railway. It ran from its northwest entrance in today's Westlake district to the Subway Terminal Building , in the Historic Core , the business and commercial center of ...
The Whittier Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. [2] A branch of the company's original Long Beach Line, operations along the line began in 1903.
The route was constructed by Los Angeles and Redondo Railway in 1902. [1] [2] Service was operating between Los Angeles and Redondo Beach by September 22. [3]That line was split up after the Great Merger of 1911, with the segment between Hawthorne and El Nido going to the Pacific Electric and the tracks north of Hawthorne becoming the Los Angeles Railway E Line. [4]
Originally planned by the Pacific Electric, the line was turned over to the Los Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway in 1904. [1] The company opened the line to Huntington Beach on July 4, 1904, [2] reaching Newport Wharf the following year. [3] The Los Angeles Inter-Urban was acquired by Pacific Electric in 1908. [4]