Rialto station (Pacific Electric)

Rialto
Rialto
	The former Rialto Depot, seen in 2008.
Location	Riverside Avenue; Rialto, California
Coordinates	34°06′05″N 117°22′12″W / 34.10138°N 117.37002°WCoordinates: 34°06′05″N 117°22′12″W / 34.10138°N 117.37002°W
Construction
Architect	Thornton Fitzhugh
History
Opened	1914
Closed	March 28, 1947
Former services
Location

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 $255,822 in 2020 adjusted for inflation).^[3] Direct passenger service to Los Angeles ended in 1947 when the San Bernardino Line was truncated to Baldwin Park.

After freight service to the station ended, the building was sold and has been operated as a restaurant.^[4]

References[]

^ 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.
^ "Pacific Electric Railway, Depot, Rialto, CA". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
^ Pacific Electric Trail Master Plan (PDF) (Report). San Bernardino Associated Governments. November 2000. p. 5. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
^ "History of Rialto". City of Rialto. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

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