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The Train Took Us There 10.30.09
The Myers Residence along the Metro Gold Line in South Pasadena In honor of Halloween, this week’s TTTUT travels to the next stop on the old Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe line from Highland Park:...
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The Trolley Took Us There 11.06.09
Passengers wait for the Pacific Electric streetcar to Annandale or South Pasadena on Avenue 64 and Roble Avenue in Garvanza circa 1907. This streetcar line came off Figueroa Street across from where...
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The Cable Car Took Us There 11.13.09
Opening day in Boyle Heights for another rail line in another century. November 2, 1889. This weekend, rail returns to Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles in the form of Metro’s Gold Line Eastside...
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The Cable Car Took Us There 11.20.09
A west-bound cable car crosses over the Los Angeles River on the wooden 1st Street Bridge in 1893. Photo from the Metro Library Archive Continuing the celebration of passenger rail’s return to the...
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The Trolley Took Us There 12.04.09
Pacific Electric Streetcars pass Avenue 57 on their ways to Slauson Junction and Pasadena via North Figueroa Street in 1906. Photo from the LA Public Library Photo Collection. Thinking about this...
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The Train Took Us There 01.22.10
La Grande Station, Los Angeles in 1897. Photo via The Metro Library Archive. Expanding upon Highland Park’s connection to the Santa Fe Railway, above is a picture of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
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The Trolley Took Us There 02.19.10
The Los Angeles Railway's "W" Line & The Southwest Museum. Photo via The Metro Library & Archive. The year was 1914, there was revolution in Mexico, the world was at war, and the namesake for...
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The Trolley Took Us There 03.12.10
Image via The Electric Railway Historical Association The Number 2 Line of the Los Angeles Railway stops at 5 Points in Lincoln Heights headed for downtown after leaving Montecito Heights. Note how...
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The Trolley Took Us There 12.17.10
LATL W Line Car 1505 At Figueroa Street & York Boulevard on February 15, 1948. Photo by the amazing Alan Weeks, via The Metro Transportation Library and Archive. This week, yet another great...
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The Trolley Took Us There 01.21.11
The Pacific Electric Red Car heads east towards Baldwin Park out of Downtown Los Angeles through Boyle Heights on October 31, 1943. (Note the once omnipresent gas tanks along the LA River in the...
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