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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.
This is a route-map template for the Pacific Electric Trail, a trail in San Bernardino County, California, the United States. For a key to symbols, see {{ trails legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
The Pacific Electric Trail is a 21-mile (34-kilometer) rail trail that has been constructed along the former San Bernardino Line. [41] The Baldwin Park Subdivision within San Bernardino county is owned by SBCTA. SBCTA currently licenses the railroad right of way as a class one bike trail to the cities within the rail corridor.
This trail made a large figure eight traverse of Mt. Lowe and Mount Echo, starting and ending at the Alpine Tavert without ever traversing the same terrain twice. [ 35 ] In 1922 Henry Ford visited the Mount Lowe Railway and returned with a Hollywood filming crew who made a silent film documentary of the trip with the camera mounted on the ...
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 spent $1,424,000 ($43.3 million in 2023 adjusted for inflation) to bring service to San Bernardino. [8] A cutoff bypassing Pomona was completed on November 4, 1914. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] A branch line to Azusa was built in 1917, [ 10 ] though the commencement of San Bernardino trains relegated other endpoints to secondary status along ...
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 ...
The right-of-way was established as an interurban route for the Pacific Electric Railway. Grading of the route began on September 30, 1904, [3] and service commenced in 1905. The line was double-tracked for its length except for single track bridges. One set of tracks was removed in 1941. [4]