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Title
Remains of cable winding machinery
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank 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, once part of the cable winding machinery located in the Echo Mountain cable house and used to pull the cable cars up and down the Incline portion of the railway.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00012686
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Cable cars-Mount Lowe.
CARL0000016966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87623
Subject
Mount Lowe Railway
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Railroads, Cable--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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