Santa Monica Air Line
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The Santa Monica Air Line was an interurban railroad operated by the Pacific Electric between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles. Electric passenger service operated over the line between 1908 and 1953. After abandonment as a freight railroad, most of the route was converted to light rail for use by the Metro E Line.
![The Air Line looking west from Ivy station (later Culver Junction), with the junction and station building in the foreground, 1905[dubious – discuss]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Ivy_Station.jpg/500px-Ivy_Station.jpg)
The Air Line looking west from Ivy station (later Culver Junction), with the junction and station building in the foreground, 1905[dubious – discuss]
Palms Depot
The former Santa Monica transfer station in July 2017. The building served as a transfer point between the standard-gauge and narrow-gauge streetcar lines in the area.
Car 1044 at the end of the tracks, 1911. The sign under the car's left window reads "Los Angeles via Air Line".
Los Angeles Pacific Railroad
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The Los Angeles Pacific Railroad (1896−1911) (LAP) was an electric public transit and freight railway system in Los Angeles County, California. At its peak it had 230 miles (370 km) of track extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside, Santa Monica, and the South Bay towns along Santa Monica Bay.
A 60-Class LAP streetcar and 40-Class trailer on Santa Monica Boulevard in Sawtelle at the National Soldier's Home, c. 1901
Moses H. Sherman
View of the first Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway car over Arroyo Seco near the Cawston Ostrich Farm, on March 7, 1895
1900: Los Angeles-Pacific 70-Class car labelled "Santa Monica"