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The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, opened on October 17, 1875, [1] was a steam-powered rail line which ran between the Santa Monica Long Wharf (north of the current Santa Monica Pier) and 5th and San Pedro streets in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles and Glendale Railway: UP: 1888 1891 Los Angeles Terminal Railway: Los Angeles and Independence Railroad: SP: 1875 1888 Southern Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale Railway: UP: 1889 1891 Los Angeles Terminal Railway: Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: UP: 1916 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Los Angeles and San Diego ...
Pacific Electric lines emanating from Downtown Los Angeles, 1917. The following passenger rail lines were operated by the Pacific Electric Railway and its successors from the time of its merger in 1911 until the last line was abandoned in 1961. One count indicated that the company and its successors operated as many as 143 different routes in ...
The development of the mixed-mode Los Angeles Metro Rail began as two separate undertakings. The Southern California Rapid Transit District was planning a new subway along Wilshire Boulevard while the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission was also designing a light rail system utilizing a former Pacific Electric corridor. The light rail ...
1873 – Los Angeles Daily Herald newspaper begins publication. [18] 1874 May: Tiburcio Vásquez California's first Notorious Celebrity was caught and apprehended after a shootout in Today's West Hollywood; 1875 – Los Angeles and Independence Railroad begins operating to Santa Monica. [1] 1876
The first Lynwood station was established by the Los Angeles Inter-Urban Electric Railway in 1905 as part of the West Santa Ana Branch. It was little more than a simple shed adjacent to sugar beet fields at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard. [a] [2] The line and station
The line starts at Watts Junction on the former quadruple-track Watts Line (present Los Angeles Metro A Line and Wilmington Subdivision) then went west with two tracks to South Los Angeles (Broadway at 117th Street) where the Redondo Beach via Gardena Line and the San Pedro via Gardena Line branched off to the south between Broadway and ...
The earliest streetcars in Los Angeles were horse-propelled. The earliest horsecar railway, the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad was built in 1874 by Robert M. Widney, and ran from the Plaza area to Sixth and Pearl Street; [3] Not much later, this line would be extended northeast to East Los Angeles (today’s Lincoln Park). [4]