View of one the trolley cars on the scenic Mount Lowe Railway (later the Pacific Electric Railway) as it rounds a curve on the famous Circular Bridge, which seemed to hang out over the canyon; more tracks are visible on an upper grade, which look graveled over. A large number of bridges had to be built on the Mount Lowe Railway line in order to cross all the gorges. Tourists would travel on this line between Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe looking out over the valleys below. The line thrilled passengers above Altadena from 1893 until ruined by massive storms in 1938.
Mount Lowe Railway Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County) Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County) Trolley cars--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County) Mountains--California, Southern Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.) San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) Circular Bridge (Calif.)
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