In 1872, desperate and disgruntled Los Angeles County voters passed a bond totaling more than $610,000 to subsidize Southern Pacific’s construction costs to build a rail connection from the ...

On Sept. 9, 1876, the Southern Pacific completed its southern transcontinental route through to Los Angeles. It then held a monopoly on all rail traffic to the city and its port.

* The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot at the corner of Lankershim and south Chandler boulevards is the oldest unmodified railroad structure remaining in the San Fernando Valley, a monument second ...

Southern Pacific acquired a 22-mile railroad from Los Angeles to Wilmington, opened in October, 1869 and construction began during 1873 on lines north and east out of the city.

A historic railroad depot undergoing renovation in Long Beach was destroyed by a fire early Friday morning, fire officials said. The Long Beach Fire Department began receiving calls at 2:37 a.m ...

In many ways the history of Los Angeles began at this uncovered railroad. Before 1880, ... "This rail yard was, to some extent, the Ellis Island of Southern California.