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The Temple Street Cable Railway began service on July 14, 1886. It was bought by and merged into the Pacific Electric Railway, which replaced the cable cars with electric streetcar service on October 2, 1902. The route was transferred to the Los Angeles Railway in 1910. Service on the last remaining portion of the route was discontinued in 1946.
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Main article: Cable cars in Los Angeles Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902, [ 2 ] when the lines were electrified and electric ...
The Second Street Cable Railway was the first cable car system to open in Los Angeles. [1] Opened in 1885, it ran from Second and Spring Streets to First Street and Belmont Avenue. The completed railway was 6,940 feet long, just over a mile and a quarter, with a power house constructed in the middle, at Boylston Street. [ 2 ]
The company carried many more passengers than the Red Cars, which served a larger and sparser area of Los Angeles. Cars operated on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge tracks, [2] and shared dual gauge trackage with the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Pacific Electric system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front ...
Reintroduced (LRT) 14 Jul 1990 as part of Metro Rail's Blue Line. Los Angeles: Horse July 1, 1874: 1897 [22] [23] Cable October 8, 1885: October 2, 1902: See Cable cars and funiculars in Los Angeles: Steam 1886: c. 1915 Los Angeles Railway: Los Angeles: Electric Streetcar 1901: 1963: Name was changed to Los Angeles Transit Lines in 1945 Pacific ...
The company's first line opened on California Street in 1878 and is the oldest cable car line still in operation. The company remained independent until 1951, outlasting all the other commercial streetcar and cable car operators in the city. The city purchased and reopened the lines in 1952; the current cable car system is a hybrid made up of ...
Both the single-ended cars on the Powell–Hyde and Powell–Mason lines, and the double-ended cars on the California Street line, are of this type. The single-ended cars have a single open section at the front of the car, with a closed compartment at the rear, whilst the double-ended cars have a central closed compartment flanked by open areas ...
The Waterfront Red Car in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, California, was a heritage line that operated from 2003 until closure in 2015 due to the realignment of Sampson Way leading into Ports O' Call Village. [139] [140] Restoring trackage was deemed cost prohibitive.