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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Pacific Electric Railway car 5013 emerges from the Hollywood Subway Tunnel, entering the Toluca Yard in June 1955. The tunnel was built in 1925 at a cost of $1.25 million, and it was retired in 1955.

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 sold the area to the federal government to become part of Angeles National Forest in 1947, and the U.S. Forest Service demolished the remaining ruins in the 1950s and 1960s.

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.