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Title: Cable winding machinery on Mount Lowe Railway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Shown here is a grip wheel, 9 feet in diameter, and other parts of the machinery called winding machinery located at the Echo Mountain station. They were used to pull the cable cars up and down the Incline portion of the Mount Lowe railway. It was designed by Andrew Smith Hallidie, and worked throughout its 44 year history without accident.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00012690
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-4(318); A-008-739.4 4x5
CARL0000016970
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87618
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Railroads, Cable--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Hallidie, Andrew Smith,1836-1900
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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