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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 San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) was a mass transit system in San Diego County, California, United States. The system utilized 600 volt direct current streetcars [1] and (in later years) buses. The SDERy was established by sugar heir and land developer John D. Spreckels in 1892. The railroad's original network consisted of five routes ...
The Automobile Club of Southern California is the Southern California affiliate of the American Automobile Association (AAA) federation of motor clubs.The Auto Club was founded on December 13, 1900, in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws, and improvement of overall driving conditions.
The San Diego Class 1 streetcar was a fleet of twenty-four unique streetcars that were originally built to provide transportation for the Panama–California Exposition in Balboa Park. The cars were designed by the San Diego Electric Railway Company (SDERy) under the leadership of John D. Spreckels and built by the St. Louis Car Company.
Sprinter (stylized in all caps) is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) service operating in the North County area of San Diego County between the cities of Escondido and Oceanside, California, United States. The service uses the 22-mile (35 km) Escondido Subdivision of the San Diego
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Above image zoomed out, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 The Women's Christian Temperance Union building, also known as Temperance Temple, at Temple and Fort (now Broadway) streets, with a Temple Street Cable Railway car, 1890
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said it was too early to provide a death toll. He said almost 180,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and another 200,000 face evacuation warnings.
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 of the 6th and Main terminal), on Hill St, on 7th St, on 4th Street, and along Hawthorne Boulevard south of ...