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The Pacific Electric Railway Company was a privately-owned public transit system in the Los Angeles, California region from 1901-1965 (passenger service ended in 1961). It had about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) of track and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.
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Its passenger operations (both rail and bus) were sold to...
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Market Street Railway's Pacific Electric tribute PCC looked...
- Collection: Pacific Electric Railway 1899-1953 - Flickr
Its passenger operations (both rail and bus) were sold to newly-formed Metropolitan Coach Lines in 1953. The last Pacific Electric Railway was converted to buses in 1961.
Jul 31, 2017 · The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.
The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society (PERyHS) is a non-profit association dedicated to the preservation of the memory of the Pacific Electric Railway. The goals of the PERyHS are: to preserve and maintain historical documents, visual images, oral histories, and historical studies; to make these materials available to the general ...
Market Street Railway's Pacific Electric tribute PCC looked right at home along the Southern Pacific building at No. 1 Market Street in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2019.
The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.
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Jun 12, 2023 · Before America's involvement in World War I, the Pacific Electric Railway was undoubtedly the country's greatest interurban system. It dispatched 6,200 trains a day providing frequent, efficient, and high-speed service throughout the Greater Los Angeles region.
