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A 1913 Phoenix car is in storage at Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson, pending restoration. Rail transit returned when Valley Metro Rail opened its modern light-rail system on December 28, 2008—nearly sixty years after the Street Railway's last run. [13]
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The Los Angeles Electric Railway began operations in 1887. Electrically-powered streetcar systems were numerous, but were largely consolidated into two large networks. In 1901, Henry Huntington bought various electric streetcar companies operating mostly within the City of Los Angeles (and not in the San Fernando Valley, Harbor area or Westside ...
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]
The Gold Line Eastside Extension was a project by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (successor to LARy services) to establish a light rail line to East Los Angeles. From the previous terminus at Union Station , trains operate primarily via 1st Street to Indiana, though the majority of the line is in a tunnel.
Moses Hazeltine Sherman (December 3, 1853 – September 9, 1932) was an American land developer who built the Phoenix Street Railway in Phoenix, Arizona, and streetcar systems that would become the core of the Los Angeles Railway and part of the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, California, and owned and developed property in areas such as the westside of Los Angeles, the San Fernando ...
Map of Los Angeles Railway Lines, 1943–1946 incarnation of the 10 shown in grey A wholly new route was assigned the number 10 on June 21, 1943, running over Vernon, Dalton, and Santa Barbara and extending to Vermont and 39th at rush hours. [ 2 ]
The Hueneme, Malibu & Port Los Angeles Railway was a standard-gauge, 15-mile railroad (24 km) in Malibu, California. It was founded by Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) and operated on his 13,000-acre ranch (5,300 ha) along the coast, which encompassed most of what is today Malibu.