Arrowhead Line

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|type = Interurban

|system = Pacific Electric

| status = Defunct

| locale = San Bernardino, California

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| end = Arrowhead Springs

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The Arrowhead Line was a suburban route of the Pacific Electric Railway. It ran from the joint Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific San Bernardino Depot to Arrowhead Springs, by way of D Street.{{cite book |title=Pacific Electric Railway Time Table |url=https://wx4.org/to/foam/maps/1more8/1932-04-05PE_Riverside_linesPTT.pdf |publisher=Pacific Electric |access-date=17 January 2021 |via=wx4's Dome of Foam |date=March 26, 1932}}

History

Constructed by the San Bernardino, Arrowhead & Waterman Railway, the line was sold to the Pacific Electric in 1904.{{Robertson-Western Railroad|page=202}} An extension to the Arrowhead Hotel began carrying cars in March 1907.{{cite web |title=San Fernando Valley Line |url=http://erha.org/pewsfv.htm |publisher=Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California |accessdate=8 September 2020}} Operations along the line ceased on July 7, 1924 amid power problems in Pacific Electric system; limited service was restored the following January with the rest of the line brought back to full schedule by March 25, 1925. The Arrowhead Line saw sparse passenger service beyond the local lines in San Bernardino, with many trips north of Highland Avenue operated as a shuttle service. Regular passenger operations initially ended after August 1932,{{cite news |title=Service Halted To Arrowhead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-service-ha/136106390/ |access-date=1 December 2023 |newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun |via=Newspapers.com |date=August 17, 1932 |location=San Bernardino, California |page=11}} {{free access}} though Excursion trips continued until June 1941. Local service was reestablished as far north as Mountain View and 34th as part of the D Street–Highland Avenue Local between 1937 and 1942, when the franchise expired.{{Veysey-PE-1958 |pages=63–64}}

Freight operations continued with diesel locomotives after 1942.

Freight

The Arrowhead Line primarily served to haul water tanks from the Arrowhead Springs Company.{{Cite book |last1=Hilton |first1=George W. |title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America |last2=Due |first2=John F. |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-8047-4014-3 |location=Stanford, California |orig-year=1960 |page=410}}

References

External links

[https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/29979/pacific-electric-railway-m-of-w-dept-eastern-div-arrowhe-pacific-electric-railway Arrowhead Line Map (1919)] — via Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.

Category:Pacific Electric routes

Category:Light rail in California

Category:Transportation in San Bernardino County, California

Category:1902 establishments in California

Category:Railway lines opened in 1902

Category:Railway services discontinued in 1932

Category:1942 disestablishments in California

Category:San Bernardino Mountains

Category:Closed railway lines in the United States