Bakersfield & Kern Electric

Company History: The B&K was born from the 1900 purchase, rebuilding and electrification of the Bakersfield & Sumner Street Railroad – a horsecar line linking downtown Bakersfield, California with the Southern Pacific depot in nearby Sumner. B&K would eventually build a 7 mile network of streetcar lines serving greater Bakersfield. The last streetcar was replaced with buses in 1942.

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