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1923
- In 1923, the UP completed a branch from Los Angeles via Whittier and La Habra, and soon after opened its own Fullerton depot across the tracks from the Santa Fe depot.
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Jun 23, 2019 · The San Diegan began service on March 28, 1938, making two roundtrips per day between Los Angeles and San Diego. It was an ‘express’ upgrade of the Santa Fe’s well-established and popular Los Angeles-San Diego “Surf Line” rail corridor service.
The Fullerton Line was an interurban route of the Pacific Electric Railway. It ran between Downtown Los Angeles and Fullerton, California. It opened in 1917 and hosted passenger service until 1938; the line was retained for freight for some time thereafter.
The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system.
Fullerton's railroad connection dates to its founding in 1887 when brothers Edward and George Armerige learned the Santa Fe railway was mapping its westward route into Los Angeles.
In the Los Angeles area, real estate tycoon Henry Huntington established both the Los Angeles Railway, also known as the Yellow Car system, and the above-mentioned Pacific Electric Red Car System in 1901. The San Francisco Municipal Railway was established in 1912.
May 16, 2019 · The Pacific Electric (PE) Railway was started in 1901 by railroad executive Henry Huntington (nephew of “Big Four” railroad baron Collis Huntington), and over the following two decades built, acquired and consolidated ‘interurban’ electric trolley lines across Southern California.
