Henry Huntington founded the Pacific Electric Line known as the Big Red Cars, in 1901. In 1905, the Santa Ana Line opened.
The Santa Ana Line diverged from the Long Beach Line at Watts and proceeded in a southeasterly direction straight as an arrow until reaching the city of Santa Ana which it entered on Fourth Street. Host service terminated at the PE Station, but a few continued on about 2/3 of a mile eastward to the Southern Pacific Station.
This line served the towns of Lynwood, Clearwater, Bellflower, Artesia, Cypress, Stanton and Garden Grove en route. In its original condition, the Santa Ana line was entirely double tracked except for certain bridges where single track was considered sufficient. In 1940-41, this line lost one track and thereby much of its ability to render a superior service.
The line followed modern day Santa Ana Blvd, which is very busy so I had to hide this off the road a little.