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The Western and Franklin Avenue Line was a
Pacific Electric The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system ...
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line which traveled from
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to Hollywood. It operated from 11th and Hill Streets via Hill, Sunset, Santa Monica Boulevard, Western Avenue, Franklin Avenue, Argyle Avenue, Yucca Street, and Vine Street to end at Hollywood and Vine Boulevards. It operated from 1908 to 1940. The Brush Canyon Line branched from this line at Bronson.


History

Tracks on Western and Franklin were 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 and were converted to
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only a month after completion. Double tracking on Western Avenue was completed in 1910 and the line was acquired by Pacific Electric in 1911 as part of the Great Merger. Some outbound trips continued west on
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to terminate at the West Hollywood station following PE's acquisition, though this ended by 1912. Between February 1922 and July 1924 the route operated as a shuttle service between Santa Monica/Western and Hollywood/Vine. Service was suspended from July 1924 to the following January owing to power issues throughout the system. Through-routing to the downtown terminal was reestablished upon resumption of service, though it had been reduced to rush hours only by October 1932 and the line was through-routed with the Venice Boulevard Local. Cars were terminating at Hill and 11th by 1935, and shuttle service on the outer segment of the line returned in 1938. Service was discontinued on March 17, 1940.


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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Streetcars in North America Streetcars or trolley(car)s (North American English for the European word ''tram'') were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns. Most of the original urban streetcar systems were either dismantled in ...
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List of California railroads The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of California. __TOC__ Common freight carriers Freight carrier information is current . Other * Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) * Oakland Global Rail Enterprise (OGRE) ** West Oakland Pacif ...
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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 ...


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Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California
History of Los Angeles Light rail in California Pacific Electric routes Railway lines opened in 1908 1908 establishments in California Railway lines closed in 1950 1950 disestablishments in California Closed railway lines in the United States {{California-transport-stub