Rialto station was a

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Rialto, California Rialto is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, 56 miles east of Los Angeles, near the Cajon Pass, Interstate 15, Interstate 10, State Route 210 and Metrolink routes. Its population was 104,026 as of the 2020 Census, ...

. It is located on Riverside Avenue at crossing of the

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(formerly Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific) tracks. This was the point where the

Riverside–Rialto Line Riverside–Rialto was an interurban train service operated by the Pacific Electric Railway from 1914 to 1940, running from Downtown Los Angeles to Downtown Riverside. This was the longest service in the Pacific Electric system, and the only li ...

branched south from the

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. The

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was designed by

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, who also designed the railroad's main downtown terminal: the

Pacific Electric Building The historic Pacific Electric Building (also known as the Huntington Building, after the railway’s founder, Henry Huntington, or simply “6th & Main”), opened in 1905 in the core of Los Angeles as the main train station for the Pacific Elec ...

. The

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structure cost the railway roughly $10,000 for construction ( adjusted for inflation). 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 had been operated as a restaurant.

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Rialto, California Railway stations in the United States opened in 1914 1914 establishments in California Railway stations closed in 1947 Repurposed railway stations in the United States Pacific Electric stations Railway stations in San Bernardino County, California {{California-railstation-stub