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.

Multiple people were injured after a bus overturned in Lancaster on Tuesday afternoon, authorities say. The Los Angeles ...

Dozens of people on board a transit bus were injured when the bus crashed and overturned in Lancaster. Amber Frias reports ...

In the early 1900s, American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington purchased a smaller rail line between Pasadena and Los Angeles, which acted as the foundation of the Pacific Electric railway.

LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 3.-Because of the rising of Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company will move its main line in that vicinity for the fifth time.

Travel Town, open all week, is a “railroad petting zoo” full of historic rail stock like an 1880 Southern Pacific locomotive and an 1881 Union Pacific caboose that also does a good job ...

The San Fernando Railroad Tunnel was opened in 1876 to connect Los Angeles with the transcontinental railroad line in San Francisco. ... It was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, ...

It took me two days to finally see a train on the Tehachapi Loop, the 3,799-foot-long rail spiral in Southern California that first allowed passenger trains to journey from the Bay Area to Los ...

More passenger trains are being added between two Southern California cities this year. The Biden Administration has awarded a $27 million federal grant to the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to add ad… ...

Global data company Panjiva, which tracks bills of lading — the digital receipts of cargo containers — said that between Sept. 1 and Oct. 14 at the Port of Los Angeles, $231 million worth of ...

In the early days of the Southern Pacific, the Big Four had a near-monopoly in California. Riding the train was prohibitively expensive, but when a competing company — the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ...