Rialto station (Pacific Electric)
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The former Rialto Depot, seen in 2008. The former ticket booth remains, seen protruding from the building left of center frame. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Riverside Avenue Rialto, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°06′05″N 117°22′12″W / 34.10138°N 117.37002°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Architect | Thornton Fitzhugh | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | March 28, 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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. The concrete structure cost the railway roughly $10,000 for construction (equivalent to $310,822 in 2024 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.