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Echo Park Avenue Line

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Echo Park Avenue
Overview
OwnerPacific Electric
LocaleLos Angeles
Termini
  • 11th & Hill Streets
  • Cerro Gordo Street
Stations1
Service
TypeStreetcar
SystemPacific Electric
Operator(s)Pacific Electric
History
Opened1889
ClosedDecember 28, 1950 (1950-12-28)
Technical
Line length4.56 mi (7.34 km)
Number of tracks1
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Old gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
ElectrificationOverhead line600 V DC
Route map

Echo Park and Cerro Gordo
Donaldson Street
Champlain Terrace
Baxter Street
Stop (between Husted St & Carlson Court)
Ewing Street
Marsden Street
Lucretia Avenue
Delta Street-Morton
Scott Avenue
Sunset and Echo Park
La Veta Terrace
Portia Street
Douglas-Lilac Terrace
Elysian Park Avenue-Allison Street
Innes Avenue
Marion Avenue
Everett-Beatrice
Beaudry & Bellevue Avenue
Centennial Street
Figueroa Street
Bunker Hill
Grand Avenue & Sunset
Sunset Boulevard & Hill Street
 A 
Temple Street
First Street
Second Street
Third Street
Fourth Street
Hill Street Station
Subway Terminal
Fifth Street
Sixth Street
Seventh Street
Eighth Street
Ninth Street
Tenth Street
Eleventh Street

The Echo Park Avenue Line was a Pacific Electric streetcar line in Los Angeles. The railway traveled from 11th and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles along the Hollywood Line to Sunset Boulevard where it turned right and proceeded north along Echo Park Avenue to terminate at Cerro Gordo Street in the Echo Park neighborhood.[1][2]

History

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The route was opened as a horsecar line in 1889 under the Elysian Park Street Railway Company.[1][3][4]

Pacific Electric designated the service with the number 32.[5] At the time of the Great Merger of 1911, the line operated only as a shuttle on Echo Park Avenue between Sunset and Cerrito Gordo.[5] Early the following year, the cars were continuing downtown to be through-routed with the Venice Boulevard Line. The inbound terminus was truncated to 9th and Hill in 1916.[5] Between July and September 1926, the terminal was extended to 11th and Hill. Power issues in 1924 forced the route to again operate as a shuttle service on Echo Park between July and November. Through-routing to Venice continued starting in 1932 and persisted until 1950. Evening and Sunday service was converted to bus operations starting in 1939, but was reestablished in 1942 as a wartime measure.[6] Service was reduced to a single franchise car on October 1, 1950, with full abandonment following on December 28.[6][7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Echo Park Avenue Line". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  2. ^ Walker 1975, p. 26
  3. ^ Walker 1975, p. 91
  4. ^ "West Enders". The Los Angeles Times. October 31, 1899. p. 4. Retrieved December 16, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  5. ^ a b c Veysey 1958, p. 10
  6. ^ a b Veysey 1958, p. 11
  7. ^ "Sierra Madre Rail Service Ends Officially". Daily News-Post. December 28, 1950. p. 7. Retrieved February 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon

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