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Description: «Interurban systems centering at Los Angeles» (original caption) Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches) Title: The street railway review Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association Subjects: Street-railroads Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: l. Of this track about 27 miles havecast welded joints. The ties used through-out are of redwood and are spaced 2 ft. be-tween centers. The overhead line is sub-stantially built, the poles being of cedar andthe trolley wire of No. 000 double groovecopper. The overhead material was madeby the General Electric Co. and insulatedcrossings made by Albert & J. M. .\nder-son are used. The total mileage of the company includ-ing sidings, turnouts, etc., measured as sin-gle track is 147.72 miles, as shown by theaccompanying table. All the interurbanlines of the Pacific Electric Railway Co. are double track standard gage lines with the exception of the old Pasa-dena Line, which will shortly be changed from narrow gage (3 ft.6 in.) to standard. PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. May I, 1903. Equivalent Length Single TrackMiles. 19.316.224.100.582.571.672.50 Temple St. Line (Spring St. to Hoover St.).. 2.98Hell Line (1st and Broadway to Echo ParkRoad and Temple. Including bdgewereRiKid) 2.48 4<5 Text Appearing After Image: Length inMiles.Los Angeles & Pasadena Ry. (Main & Macy Sts. to Chestnut St.) 10.56 Alladena Line (Chestnut St. to Rubio) 5.62 Mt. Lowe Ry. (Rubio to .Mpine Tavern) 4.08 West Colorado St. (Pasadena) 0.58 East Colorado St. (Pasadena) 1.65 North Loop (Pasadena) 1.67 South Loop (Pasadena) 2. 20 Short Line (First & Los Angeles Sts. to Raymond) 8.67 Alhambra Line (Junction to San Gabriel Mission) 3.54 Monrovia Line (Junction, Eastward) 9.80 Long Beach Line (oth and Tennessee, South). 19.40 I-ong Beach Line (.-Mamitos Extension) S./O Long Beach Line (i4lh St. and Magnolia Ave.) 1.63 Santa Ana and Orange (Motor Road) 4.47 INTERURBAN SYSTEMS CENTERING .\T LOS ANGELES. Brooklyn .\ve 1.68 2.25 Fifth St. (ist and ^Iain St. to .Arcade Depot. Sole Owner) 0.175 0.35 Fifth St. (ist and Main St. to .A.rcade Depot. Joint owner with Los Angeles Ry.) 0.915 1.83 Ninth St. (Main St. to Santa Fe Ave.) 1.86 320 First St. (Los Angeles to Broadway. Joint owner with Los .Angeles Ry.) 0.23 0.46 Pacif Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The street railway review (1891) (14572087070)
Credit: (anon.): “The Los Angeles and the Pacific Railway System, Los Angeles, Cal. — I” The Street Railway Review XIII:5 (1903.05.20): p.248 Internet Archive Book Images https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14572087070/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/streetrailwayrev13amer/streetrailwayrev13amer#page/n279/mode/1up
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