It ran between Downtown Los Angeles and the Balboa Peninsula in Orange County by way of North Long Beach, though the route was later cut back to the Newport Dock.

[1] The company opened the line to Huntington Beach on July 4, 1904,[2] reaching Newport Wharf the following year.

[4] The Newport Beach to Balboa segment was reduced to a single daily round trip in June 1940 and was fully abandoned on November 18 of that year.

[5] In July 1942, passenger service was briefly restarted with runs of the club car Commodore, lasting just under two months.

[5] Service was fully restored on May 2, 1943 as a way to move workers for the war effort and Pacific Electric lacked motor coaches to do so; trains ran between Huntington and Long Beach, where passengers transferred to Long Beach Line cars.

[5] By July, morning and evening runs were discontinued, as noise from the interurban line interfered with the United States Navy submarine listening post at Seal Beach.

[citation needed] The Long Beach Green Belt path occupies 11 acres (4.5 ha) of the corridor in Belmont Heights.

By the end of its life in 1949,[13] the car only called at Huntington Beach between Newport and Los Angeles.

The dual tracks on private way then skirted the Colorado Lagoon and paralleled Appian Way (by the Marine Stadium) from Nieto Avenue to the San Gabriel River in Long Beach, and used three wooden trestle bridges in crossing Alamitos Bay and the river.

Naval Ammunition and Net Depot caused the line to be rerouted north from Electric Avenue on 17th Street to the Ocean Side of Pacific Coast Highway around Anaheim Bay to Sunset Beach.