In 1953, Pacific Electric sold its remaining Red Cars to a private bus line, which was bought out five years later by the state-owned Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority for $33.3 million.

A Pacific Electric Railroad stopped at a washed out section of rail following major floods in 1916. Map shows Pacific Electric Line from Santa Ana to the Metro Green Line in Downey.

The Pacific Electric Railway spent $1,424,000 on the expansion into the Inland Empire, and the line provided a critical transportation corridor for many years.

Pacific Electric Railway (PE) had acquired the El Dorado System’s 33 passenger buses in April of 1930, therefore expanding public transportation choices on both rubber and rail.

At its peak ridership of 3.1 million passengers in 1924, the Pacific Electric Railway operated 2,100 trains a day across 1,100 miles of track in the greater Los Angeles area, Pasadena Weekly ...

Pacific Electric Railway Station, with the depot in Glendora, circa 1937. The Santa Fe Railway even took oranges from Glendora to the White House, for President William Howard Taft to enjoy.