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.

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.

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.

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, ...

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… ...

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 ...