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The company, in its earliest form as Federal Electric, a lighted sign company, was founded in 1901. It later made home and kitchen appliances, neon signs, police sirens, and circuit-breakers. Everything but circuit-breakers had been spun off or sold off to other companies by the 1940s, and the name was changed to Federal Pacific Electric.
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]
Since the interties may consist of multiple power-lines, the maximum voltage used is shown in the table below. Some of the links such as Path 65, the Pacific DC Intertie, do consist of a single transmission line, so the maximum voltage is the voltage used.
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 ...
That bottleneck was one of the reasons for the California electricity crisis in 2000-01. Another important transmission corridor WAPA built was Path 66, paralleling Path 15. WAPA also owns and operates many electric power substations like the Mead substation to distribute power within the region. WAPA settled with FERC and NERC for the 2011 ...
After the 1979 sale of Federal Pacific Electric to Reliance Electric, a unit of Exxon Corporation, Reliance reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that the Stab-Lok breakers and panels did not meet the requirements published by Underwriters Laboratories, even though the products bore UL labels. The CPSC performed its own ...
The company was absorbed into the Pacific Electric in 1911. In 1913 the service was through-routed with the D Street–Highland Avenue Line . Completion of the more direct San Bernardino–Riverside Line in late 1914 greatly reduced demand on the line, with ridership reduced by more than half on the old line the following year.
The Pacific Electric Sub-Station No. 14 is a former traction substation in Santa Ana, California. It was built by the Pacific Electric Railway to provide electricity to run the railway's streetcars in central Orange County, California. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.