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Pacific Electric Railway

Californian transit company
Organization railway_company Q2107112
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Pacific Electric Railway

Summary

Pacific Electric Railway is a railway company[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pacific Electric Railway held citizenship in United States[3].
  • Pacific Electric Railway is located in Greater Los Angeles[4].
  • Pacific Electric Railway is in the country of United States[5].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's image is recorded as Pac-elec-depot-1910.jpg[6].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[7].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's instance of is recorded as tram system[8].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's operator is recorded as Southern Pacific Transportation Company[9].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's logo image is recorded as PELogo.svg[10].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 125481979[11].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79142585[12].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Commons category is recorded as Pacific Electric Railway[13].
  • +1901-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pacific Electric Railway[14].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lqxg[15].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pacific Electric Railway[16].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's replaced by is recorded as Southern Pacific Transportation Company[17].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's reporting mark is recorded as PE[18].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's date of official opening is recorded as +1901-00-00T00:00:00Z[19].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pacific-Electric-Railway[20].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's archINFORM person/group ID is recorded as 121992[21].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's state of use is recorded as decommissioned[22].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as パシフィック電鉄[23].
  • Pacific Electric Railway's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/3f92b30d-3dd9-4609-b5bb-cca9ffe4b9a9[24].

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Founding

+1901-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pacific Electric Railway[14].

Operations

Pacific Electric Railway's operator is recorded as Southern Pacific Transportation Company[9].

Why It Matters

Pacific Electric Railway ranks in the top 2% of railway_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . archinform.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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