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.

The Pacific Electric Railway – once considered one of the best public transit systems in the world – may now only exist in memories and movies, but a reminder of its heyday was recently ...

That line eventually was bought up by Huntington’s Pacific Electric Railway, which Huntington began building in 1901 -- primarily so people could reach his new suburbs and buy the homes he was ...

The arrival of the first Pacific Electric Railway cars in San Bernardino, on July 11, 1914, at the Pacific Electric station on Third Street, commemorated the Pacific Electric connection between ...

The Inland Empire received its first railway mail service in 1876 via Los Angeles, and a newly completed line to Colton. The railroad was extended into San Bernardino in 1883, and the city received… ...