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Title: View of the great Cable Incline
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1895
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: The great Cable Incline (seen here) went from Rubio Pavilion (the bottom) to Echo Mountain (at the top), a trip of nearly 3,000 feet, rising over 1,300 feet. In this picture we see an empty electric car on the left. On the middle right are the tracks leading up the hill with the cable car already partially up the incline.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00012705
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Cable cars-Mount Lowe.; S-007-094 4x5
CARL0000016826
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/85326
Subject: Mount Lowe Railway
Electric railroads--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Cable cars (Streetcars)--California--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County)
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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