HISTORY
Pacific
Electric: map
Map: (C) Light Rail Atlas/Rob van der Bijl, Amsterdam, 2000-2005
Reyner Banham (1971) gave the following description of the PE-system: "The Big Red Cars ran all over the Los Angeles area - literrally all over. The route map of the PE at its point of greatest extensions, when it operated 1.164 miles of track in fifty-odd communities pretty well defines Greater Los Angeles as it is today. Services ran down the coast to Balboa and along the foot of the Palisades to the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon; up into the valley and to San Fernando; to Riverside, Corona, and San Bernardino; out through La Habra and through Anaheim to Orange; through the foothill cities of the Sierra Madre to Glendora, and via Pasadena to Echo Canyon and Mount Lowe. Within the area laced by this network the stops and terminals already bore the names of streets and localities that are current today."
