Santa Ana
A PE train onSan Pedro Street, Los Angeles, en route to Santa Ana in the 1940s
Overview
Owner	Los Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway (1905–1911) Pacific Electric (1911–1953) Metropolitan Coach Lines (1953–1958) Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (1958)
Line number	11 (to 1958) 34 (1958)
Locale	Los Angeles andOrange County, California
Termini	Downtown Los Angeles Santa Ana, California Bellflower, California (after 1950)
Stations	30
Service
Type	Interurban
System	Pacific Electric
Operator(s)	Pacific Electric
Rolling stock	PE 300–400 Class (last used)
History
Opened	November 6, 1905
Closed	July 2, 1950 (to Santa Ana) May 24, 1958
Technical
Line length	34 mi (55 km)
Number of tracks	1–4[1]
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 600 V DC
Route map Legend Pacific Electric Building to Northern Division  J  R  S   J  S  to Sierra Vista–Watts & South Pasadena Local Amoco Air Line Vernon Avenue  V  Slauson Junction Whittier /Fullerton Fleming Florencita Park Florence Nadeau Graham Latin Watts end of local service Long BeachSan Pedro via Dominguez Palomar Modjeska Park Lynwood Lugo Morton Los Angeles River Michigan Avenue Paramount New York Avenue Crutcher Rendalia Bellflower terminus after 1950 Woodruff Avenue Palo Verde San Gabriel River Gallina Dolley Artesia Thornton Crescenta Coyote Creek Bingham Moody Cypress Halcon Shirley Hanson Lobo Stanton Vignolo Cordoniz Harperville Mesto Metate Garden Grove Dueno Buaro Willowick Golf Course Santa Ana River West Santa Ana Santa Ana–Orange Santa Ana Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Substation No. 14 Santa Ana SP Depot This diagram: view talk edit

TheSanta Ana Line was aninterurban route connecting Los Angeles and Santa Ana inOrange County. It ran between 1905 and 1958 (with the southern end truncated to Bellflower in 1950) and was predominantly operated by thePacific Electric Railway for its history.

The route began operation on November 6, 1905^[2] under theLos Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway;^[3] Pacific Electric leased the line starting in 1908 and fully acquired it in 1911 under terms of theGreat Merger.^[4] At the time of the merger, running times between termini was 75 minutes.Short turns at Artesia began in 1917, though these were cut back toBellflower in November 1927.^[5] Santa Ana's status as the county seat and largest city inOrange County at the time allowed for high ridership. The railway built a new station in the city in late 1927, and cars were rerouted to serve it.^[5]

Cars ceased running to the Santa Ana Southern Pacific Depot in November 1945. By 1950, service had halved from its peak only five years earlier and the line was cut back to the minor station in Bellflower on July 2,[5]^[6] becoming theBellflower Line. (PE continued to serve the Bellflower to Santa Ana segment with motor coaches.^[7]) The service was then disposed of by Pacific Electric, being taken over first by Metropolitan Coach Lines as its line 11 in 1953 before being commuted to theLos Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1958, the same year it was discontinued; the last train ran on May 24, 1958.^[5] Bellflower Line service was briefly designated as line 34 for just over a month prior to discontinuance.^[5]

TheLos Angeles Metro Rail operates a fewlight rail lines over the former route. TheA Line runs over the formerWatts Line as far as Watts, and theC Line andCentury Freeway were built throughLynwood on the old Pacific Electricright of way.

TheSoutheast Gateway Line is a plan to reactivate part of the line inLos Angeles County for expanded light rail service.^[8] The section betweenBellflower station and formerParamount station will be rehabilitated and connected to a new service eventually terminating downtown, though via a different routing than the former Santa Ana Line.

TheOC Streetcar is expected to open in 2025 and run on the southern section of the former Santa Ana Line between Santa Ana andGarden Grove.

The Santa Ana Line ran from thePacific Electric Building in Los Angeles to the Southern Pacific depot inSanta Ana, California via theWatts Line andWest Santa Ana Branch.^[4] The latter segment's diagonal running was a stark contrast to the cardinally-aligned road grid of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

The route wasquadruple-tracked through the Watts trunk line, while the Santa Ana Branch wasdouble-tracked except atsingle-track bridges.^[1]

• Pacific Electric routes
• History of Santa Ana, California
• Transportation in Santa Ana, California
• Railway services introduced in 1905
• Railway services discontinued in 1958
• 1905 establishments in California
• 1958 disestablishments in California
• Closed railway lines in the United States

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