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The Los Angeles Cable Railway (later named the Pacific Cable Railway, and incorporated in Illinois) [7] owned many exclusive franchises (agreements with the city to use public streets for transportation purposes) and by 1889 had constructed four major cable lines crisscrossing the growing downtown area, from Jefferson and Grand to East Los ...
La Grande Station was the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's (Santa Fe) main passenger terminal in Los Angeles, California from 1893 until the opening of Union Station in 1939. The station was located at 2nd Street and Santa Fe Avenue on the west bank of the Los Angeles River , just south of the First Street viaduct built in 1929.
The Los Angeles Pacific Railroad (1896−1911) (LAP) was an electric public transit and freight railway system in Los Angeles County, California. At its peak it had 230 miles (370 km) of track extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside , Santa Monica , and the South Bay towns along Santa Monica Bay .
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), a government agency was formed in 1951 to conduct a feasibility study for a 45-mile (72 km) monorail line which would have connected Long Beach with the Panorama City district in the San Fernando Valley, including a two-mile (3.2 km) tunnel beneath Downtown Los Angeles. [14] [15] That report ...
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 ...
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The addition of the railroad to La Grande was seen as an "enormous influence" and it was estimated that a quarter of homes in the city were owned by railroad employees in 1925. [9] The first depot in La Grande was built in 1884, but was destroyed in a fire c. 1890. The second depot was destroyed in 1904, and a third depot was built to replace ...
In the early 1870s, the new Cerro Gordo in the Owens Valley area of Inyo County, California, were producing a considerable amount of silver.In order for it to be shipped to San Francisco, the bullion was first transported by freight wagons to Los Angeles, loaded onto the Southern Pacific Railroad and transported to Wilmington where it was finally loaded onto steamers headed to San Francisco.