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Title: Near summit of great incline, Mount Lowe Railway
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Waite, C. B.(Charles Betts),1861-1927
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1894
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: Visitors travel on the funicular or "Great Incline" portion of the Mount Lowe Railway. People at the 10-room Rubio Pavilion and Hotel (1893-1909) with its below-deck dining room and dance floor, look on as the funicular ascends the incline at the foot of Echo Mountain. The pavilion was the transitioning point for the lower narrow-gauge train and the "Great Incline."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00070133
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Cable cars-Mount Lowe.
CARL0000074330
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113624
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.)
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)

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