{"id":490114,"date":"2026-10-09T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:00:28","slug":"l-a-harbor-commission-approves-loan-of-historic-trolleys-outer-harbor-cruise-terminal-talks-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490114\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. harbor commission approves loan of historic trolleys, outer harbor cruise terminal talks \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Red Car rail line when it ran along San Pedro\u2019s waterfront from the cruise ship terminal to 22nd Street in 2007. (Daily Breeze Archive)\n<\/p>\n

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The Red Car rail line when it ran along San Pedro\u2019s waterfront from the cruise ship terminal to 22nd Street in 2007. (Daily Breeze Archive)\n<\/p>\n

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This photo from the Orange County Archives shows a Pacific Electric \u201cRed Car\u201d southbound on San Pedro Street in Los Angeles that would have been headed to Orange County. (Courtesy of the Orange County Archives)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka presents renderings of the proposed Outer Harbor Cruise Terminal during the 11th annual \u201cState of the Port\u201d address at Alta Sea in the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday January 22, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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The Red Car rail line when it ran along San Pedro\u2019s waterfront from the cruise ship terminal to 22nd Street in 2007. (Daily Breeze Archive)\n<\/p>\n

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A proposal to loan and relocate San Pedro\u2019s three vintage Red Cars to local museums received approval from the Los Angeles harbor commission on Thursday, Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

The loan would last 20 years.<\/p>\n

The rail cars ran along San Pedro\u2019s waterfront from 2003 to 2015 \u2014 but have been in storage since then.<\/p>\n

Under the now-approved proposal<\/a> \u2014 Commissioner Lee Williams cast the sole no\u2019vote \u2014 the original and restored \u201c1058\u201d Red Car will go to the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, with the two replica cars being loaned, respectively, to the Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park under the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, and to the Lomita Railroad Museum in the city of Lomita.<\/p>\n

The vintage cars, reminiscent of a nostalgic era in L.A.\u2019s history, served as a \u201cgood attraction for a period of time,\u201d said Mike Galvin, the Port of Los Angeles\u2019 director of waterfront and commercial real estate, but were taken out of use \u201cdue to the cost and the need to work other projects, including West Harbor,\u201d into San Pedro\u2019s waterfront.<\/p>\n

Now, new trolley-style rubber-tire vehicles carry visitors and residents through the downtown and waterfront areas.<\/p>\n

Under the proposal approved Thursday, the cars will be \u201cspread throughout the region so people and the public can see them, which is much better than the present situation,\u201d Galvin said, noting the trollies have languished out of public view for years, having been in storage near the 22nd Street parking lot, which soon will be undergoing expansion work.<\/p>\n

Asked about his opposition vote later, Williams said he thinks the Red Cars should remain in San Pedro, where prospects for later use still might be found.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the (Battleship) Iowa, Lane Victory, Ralph J. Scott Fire Boat, and the Red Car is a unique part of our transportation history,\u201d he said in a written statement. \u201cIt may never be in service again, but I like the idea of finding a space for it to remain and be accessible here in Pedro.\u201d<\/p>\n

But finding new uses for the cars \u2014 such as a coffee or restaurant cart \u2014 would face some challenges, including the vehicles\u2019 narrow interiors and lack of easy accessibility, as they sit high off the ground, said Augie Bezmalinovich, the port\u2019s San Pedro community affairs advocate.<\/p>\n

Earlier suggestions that they be displayed at the West Harbor waterfront development or elsewhere along the port\u2019s Main Channel proved unworkable, Bezmalinovich said previously.<\/p>\n

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In other action approved by the commission on Thursday, the port will enter into exclusive negotiations with Pacific Cruise Terminals, LLC, to negotiate a long-term lease to develop and operate a new Los Angeles cruise terminal at Berths 90-92 and Berth 93 \u2014 the existing inner harbor cruise terminal \u2014 and a new outer harbor cruise terminal<\/a> at Berths 45-47 and 49-51.<\/p>\n

The negotiations are for a term \u201cnot to exceed two years.\u201d The goal, according to the board report, is to provide \u201cworld-class infrastructure that promotes growth\u201d and that will improve the port\u2019s financial assets.<\/p>\n

Rolled out publicly about a year ago, plans to develop a new 200-acre deep-water terminal to accommodate larger, next-generation ships would be constructed just south of Pier 400, with two new berths and about 3,000 linear feet of available wharf. The location is in the natural deep waters off the southern tip of Terminal Island.<\/p>\n

It could take about 10 years to complete once it clears all of the environmental approvals needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Car rail line when it ran along San Pedro\u2019s waterfront from the cruise ship terminal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,48,52,51,131,47,137,50,49,100,1438,1439],"class_list":["post-490114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-long-beach","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-port-of-los-angeles","tag-san-pedro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}