La Habra to Fullerton

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This girder bridge is in the Sunny Hills area of Fullerton. The Pacific Electric branch to Fullerton crossed over the Union Pacific Anaheim Branch at this location. The UP line (barely visible to the left of the tree trunk) is little used and has been cut back to Fullerton in recent years. Photo by Mike Palmer, February 2003.

This is a former Pacific Electric line, originally built in 1917. Passenger service ran until the late 1930s, and freight service continued until around 1962, when this line was abandoned. PE (and later SP) used the parallel Union Pacific branch to serve Fullerton for a few more years. Much of the surviving right of way travels through a residential area, and much of that segment is now the Juanita Cooke trail. It is not paved, and is used by joggers, trail bikes riders, horseback riders, etc. The most distinctive feature still in existence is a short girder bridge over the still (barely) active UP line. A short segment of the branch remains in use at the north end, near the junction with the UP (SP-PE) La Habra branch.

I have a question on how to contact the railroad about the abandoned lines that run behind my property, which are the LaHabra to Fullerton rails I believe. Any help you can give is much appreciated!

Lisa Blocher
Fullerton, CA
9/30/2014

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Use your address to look in www.historicaerials.com as they have both old aerials & USGS Topographic maps.

Andy Jackson
Santa Fe Springs , CN
8/27/2016

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ike Lisa Blocher's query, who is in charge of the cleaning and maintenance of the la habra to fullerton inactive railways. It is clogged and flooded right now and rain will still come. 01-21/2017.

Herminn
Fullerton
1/21/2017

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