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.

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 ...

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.

In 1911, Pacific Electric Railway Company rolled out service to the Valley, enhancing commercial opportunities and residential development in the area.

She has lived next to the Pacific Electric right-of-way since 1976. The former rail corridor that reaches from the city of Paramount to Santa Ana is now a graffiti-covered vacant corridor.

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 ...

In 1950, 800 miles of track for Pacific Electric Railway’s Red Cars crisscrossed L.A. By 1960, there were 20 miles. The following year, on April 9, a teenage train enthusiast named Ralph Cantos ...

The old, electric-powered line – which observers say would have likely passed even today’s strict emissions standards – was completed to Monrovia in 1903 and then extended eastward to ...