Rialto station (Pacific Electric)
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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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Rialto station was a
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]
After freight service to the station ended, the building was sold and had been operated as a restaurant.[5]
References
- OCLC 6565577.
- Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
- ^ Pacific Electric Trail Master Plan (PDF) (Report). November 2000. p. 5. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
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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.