Pacific Electric Railway

**The Pacific Electric Railway** often nicknamed **The Red Car** was a real-world company featured in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror's story.

## Description

This company was a mass transit system based in California. They connected various cities and counties such as Los Angeles, Grizzly Peak, and Orange County using their, "Red Car" trollies.

## History

### Background

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## Tower of Terror appearances

### Buena Vista Street

#### The Buena Vista Bugle

The first issue included the photo of a Red Car alongside the PCR logo as part of the story, "Red Car Trolleys Roll into Town!". This article was on the PCR expanding to move through Buena Vista Street while also being in the same edition as, "Lightning Strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel!".

#### Fiddler Fifer & Practical Cafe

Their logo appeared on a poster for the Hollywood Tower Hotel with the words, "Take the Red Car Trolley to the Hollywood Tower Hotel Stop".

#### Red Car Trolley

The Red Car Trolley is a transportation service and attraction which connects from *Buena Vista Street* to *Avengers Campus* in the cit of Orange. The PER is the patron of this fictitious red-car and featured on their posters alongside them travelling to the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

### Disney's Hollywood Studios

#### Grand Avenue

##### BaseLine Tap House

Artwork of this restaurant, featuring the Hollywood Tower Hotel on it.

#### Hollywood Boulevard

There is a billboard on *Hollywood Boulevard* which advertises the company.

##### Trolley Car Car Café

The Trolley Car Cafe is a Sunset Boulevard café sponsored by Starbucks which is set in a headquarters for the Pacific Electric Railway, built in 1928.

#### Sunset Boulevard

A billboard for *Paradise Pier* mentions the red car trolley. The trolley is identified as passing through Sunset Boulevard and to the Hollywood Tower Hotel. A red car appears in the land as a shopping service.

## Trivia

* The Pacific Electric Railway was notably featured in the film *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988) which was a prominent influence behind Disney's Hollywood Studios and which is referenced throughout the park. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is also referenced on Buena Vista Street where a mailbox identifies the film's protagonist Eddie Valiant as a citizen of Buena Vista Street.
* A mural advertisement for the Red Car Trolley features a depiction of *Radiator Springs* from the 2006 Pixar film Cars albeit with the car pictured being presumably inanimate. This is in reference to the heavily themed *Cars Land* area of Disney California Adventure.
	+ In-universe references to the Cars franchise have also included an Avengers Campus map of Howard Stark's colony where a, "Scrapyard" is detailed in the area used for the attraction *Mater's Junkyard Jamboree*, and the scrapped parts of plane Skipper Riley appearing in the Disney Springs hangar bar of Jock Lindsey, a comrade to Indiana Jones and member of S.E.A..

## References

1. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2010/05/worlds-wonderland-lines.html
2. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-1.pdf
3. ↑ https://www.micechat.com/159768-dca-photo-update-dropping-dropping/
4. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2019/08/photos-a-closer-look-at-avengers-campus-projects-at-the-2019-d23-expo/
5. ↑ https://blogmickey.com/2017/10/photo-paradise-pier-billboard-appears-sunset-boulevard/
6. ↑ https://allears.net/2008/01/21/pacific-electric-railway-disney/
7. ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2015/02/04/first-look-and-review-the-trolley-car-cafe-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/
8. ↑ https://orlandoparkstop.com/news/feature/hidden-things-roger-rabbit-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/
9. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/