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The Brush Canyon Line was a short-lived Pacific Electric
streetcar A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...
branch line in
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.


Route

The line branched from the Western & Franklin Ave. Line at Franklin & Bronson Avenue to travel north on Bronson to a rock quarry. Roughly an additional mile of track extended into the quarry site.


History

The line was built by the
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 of track extending from Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside, Santa Monica, an ...
in 1908 as a single-track
narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...
branch — it was converted to
standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...
later the same year. Pacific Electric took over the service in 1911 and operated the line as a shuttle. Service was abandoned on August 6, 1918. While passenger service was provided, this branch line was primarily used for freight to carry rocks used to pave
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, Highland Avenue, Adams Boulevard, West 6th Street, and
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in addition to track ballast for most Western District lines.


See also

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Streetcar suburb A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when ...
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History of rail transportation in California The establishment of America's transcontinental rail lines securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation systems that grew out of them during the century that followed contributed to the state's soci ...


References


External links


Electric Railway Heritage Association
History of Los Angeles Light rail in California Pacific Electric routes Railway lines opened in 1908 1908 establishments in California 1918 disestablishments in California Railway lines closed in 1918 Closed railway lines in the United States {{California-transport-stub