Long Beach (Pacific Electric)

Long Beach
Overview
Type	Interurban rail
System	Pacific Electric Railway
Locale	Los Angeles, and Long Beach
Termini	Downtown Los Angeles Downtown Long Beach, California
Stations	8
Daily ridership	1,603,476 (last count)
Operation
Opened	1902
Closed	1961
Operator(s)	Pacific Electric Railway
Rolling stock	PE 1200 Class (last used)
Technical
Line length	20.37 miles
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead lines
Route map Pacific Electric Building J R S J S Amoco Vernon Avenue V Slauson Junction Fleming Florencito Park Florence Nadeau Graham Latin Wattsend local service Abila Springdale Willowbrook Sativa Winona Compton Dominguez Dominguez Junction Del Amo Cota Los Angeles River Los Cerritos Vista del Mar Willow Long Beach

The Long Beach Line was a major interurban railway operated by the Pacific Electric Railway between Los Angeles and Long Beach, California via Florence, Watts, and Compton. Service began in 1902 and lasted until 1961, the last line of the system to be replaced by buses. However, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company continued to operate freight on the tracks, as the Union Pacific Railroad still does north of Dominguez Junction, and in 1990 the Southern California Rapid Transit District opened the Blue Line light rail along the same right-of-way.

In addition to the Long Beach service, the line served as a trunk for a number of other interurban lines stretching to Whittier, Yorba Linda, Fullerton, Santa Ana, Balboa, San Pedro, and Redondo Beach. It was four tracks wide north of the junction at Watts, with local service on the outer tracks and long-distance trains bypassing the local stations on the inner tracks.

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