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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 ...
The same viaduct completed in February 2021. California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system being developed in California by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Phase 1, about 494 miles (795 km) long, is planned to run from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim via the Central Valley, and is partially ...
Website. www.lajrailway.com. The Los Angeles Junction Railway (reporting mark LAJ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BNSF Railway and provides rail switching service on 64 miles of track in Los Angeles County, California. Its tracks are in the small industrial city of Vernon and adjacent industrial areas, southeast of 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 ...
Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. 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 Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California, United States, consisting of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), serving a total of 101 stations. The system connects with the Metro Busway bus rapid transit system (the G and ...
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) Length. 16.67 miles (26.83 km) 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.
History. The line was built by the Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway starting in October 1901; [ 2] it was the first standard gauge interurban railway in Southern California. It opened on June 21, 1902 running between Los Angeles General Hospital and the San Gabriel Mission, [ 2] soon extended to the Masonic Home. [ 1]