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- 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.
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Jun 9, 2019 · The Union Pacific (UP) was the third railroad to arrive in Fullerton, following the Santa Fe and the Pacific Electric before it. The UP was seeking to compete with the Santa Fe for the lucrative long-distance shipping of Orange County citrus and oil, as well as offering passenger service.
May 16, 2019 · By the 1920s the PE system was the largest interurban electric railway system in the world. At its peak, over 900 “Red Cars” operated more than 2,700 daily trains on nearly 1,100 miles of track across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
On June 6, 1903, Huntington created the Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway, capitalized at $10 million (equivalent to $339 million in 2023), with plans to extend lines to Santa Ana, Newport Beach, the San Fernando Valley, La Habra, Redlands and Riverside, with branches to Colton and San Bernardino.
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The original Pacific Electric Railway, incorporated in 1901 by Henry Huntington, was comprised of several small interurbans, too numerous to mention here. Donald Duke notes in his book, "Pacific Electric Railway: A Pictorial Album Of Electric Railroading," it all began when Huntington acquired valuable, undeveloped properties in Southern California...
One such enterprise was the Los Angeles Interurban Railway which linked Glendale, Monrovia, and Santa Ana. It also served San Pedro and Gardena by acquiring the small California Pacific in 1903, which itself was subsequently leased by the PE in 1908. Another was the Pasadena & Mount Lowe Railway, an incline system that served the famous Alpine Tave...
In total, 63 traction railroads formed the modern PE, which at its peak encompassed 1,061 miles. Its last noteworthy additions included acquisition of the Ontario & San Antonio Heights Railway in 1912 and construction of a 1-mile subway tunnel (opened in 1925) to remove several grade-crossings along the Beverly, Hollywood, Glendale-Burbank, and San...
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.
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. Faster trains using the new diesel-electric ‘streamliner’ locomotives (like the one ...
