Jeffrey Stanton Founding of Ocean Park, Web Document, April 6, 1998, 1892
"They quickly realized that the success of their beach resort would require reliable, inexpensive and direct rail service from Los Angeles. But Santa Monica businessmen, who feared competition to their North Beach resort, persuaded Collis Huntington of the Southern Pacific Railroad to be uncooperative. Instead Kinney enticed the rival Santa Fe Railroad to extend their Inglewood line north to his resort and donated twelve acres to its right of way. The first train arrived at its Hill Street depot on June 18, 1892."