The following excerpts appeared in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on June 5, 2025. To read the full article (may require subscription), click here.

Glendora dedicates first of 4 new light-rail stations as part of train line extension to Pomona – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

The new Foothill Gold Line (A Line) station in Glendora shown here during a dedication ceremony on Thursday, June 5, 2025. The station is expected to open later this summer. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)

By Steve Scauzillo

June 5, 2025

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As members of the City Council, and the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority Board and others dedicated the new Glendora A Line Station under sunny skies, it marked the first time in 74 years Glendora will have a passenger train. The Pacific Electric Railway, known as the “Red Cars” moved people and sometimes crates of that citrus lifeblood from 1907 until 1951. The last Red Car pulled into the Glendora depot on Sept. 30, 1951.

“We look forward to a clean, safe and wonderful experience on the new rail service as we hail: ‘All Aboard!’,” said Glendora Mayor David Fredendall in conclusion of his remarks.

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Claremont City Councilmember Ed Reece, who chairs the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority board, said the day was for reflecting on a build out of the line that endured the pandemic, extreme heat and torrential rains. “Today we get to pause, reflect and celebrate a shared dream that began over a decade ago,” he said.

Former Glendora Mayor Doug Tessitor, instrumental in the early days of moving the project forward, is now living in Oregon and flew in to attend the dedication ceremony. But it didn’t take him long to experience the Southern California freeways on his ride from the airport.

“What I envision is the people who live in Glendora and have to work any place west of here, will be using this train very gratefully just to get from work and back. Because it is getting to be impossible on the freeways,” he said after the ceremony.

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