Rialto station was a Pacific Electric train station in Rialto, California. It is located on Riverside Avenue at crossing of the Union Pacific (formerly Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific) tracks. This was the point where the Riverside–Rialto Line branched south from the Upland–San Bernardino Line. The station building was designed by Thornton Fitzhugh, who also designed the railroad's main downtown terminal: the Pacific Electric Building.[2] The concrete structure cost the railway roughly $10,000 for construction (equivalent to $301,184 in 2023 adjusted for inflation).[3] Direct passenger service to Los Angeles ended in 1947 when the San Bernardino Line was truncated to Baldwin Park.[4]
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 The former Rialto Depot, seen in 2008. The former ticket booth remains, seen protruding from the building left of center frame. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Riverside Avenue Rialto, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°06′05″N 117°22′12″W / 34.10138°N 117.37002°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Architect | Thornton Fitzhugh | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | March 28, 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||
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After freight service to the station ended, the building was sold and had been operated as a restaurant.[5]
References
edit- ^ Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. p. 58. ASIN B0007F8D84. OCLC 6565577.
- ^ "Pacific Electric Railway, Depot, Rialto, CA". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
- ^ Pacific Electric Trail Master Plan (PDF) (Report). November 2000. p. 5. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
{{cite report}}: Unknown parameter|agency=ignored (help) - ^ Freericks, Charles (June 2022). "Ghosts of the Pacific Electric". Railfan & Railroad. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
- ^ "History of Rialto". City of Rialto. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
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