Echo Park Avenue Line

Echo Park Avenue
Echo Park Avenue
Overview
Owner	Pacific Electric
Locale	Los Angeles
Termini	11th & Hill Streets; Cerro Gordo Street
Stations	1
Service
Type	Streetcar
System	Pacific Electric
Operator(s)	Pacific Electric
History
Opened	1899
Closed	December 28, 1950
Technical
Line length	4.56 mi (7.34 km)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Old gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	600 V DC Overhead lines
Route map
	Legend
	Hill Street Station
	Subway Terminal
	This diagram: view; ; ;

The Echo Park Avenue Line was a Pacific Electric streetcar line in Los Angeles. The railway traveled from 11th and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles along the Hollywood Line to Sunset Boulevard where it turned right and proceeded north along Echo Park Avenue to terminate at Cerro Gordo Street.^[1]^[2]

The route was opened as a horsecar line in 1899 under the .^[3]

Service was reduced to a single franchise car On October 1, 1950, with full abandonment following on December 28.^[4]

References[]

^ "Echo Park Avenue Line". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ Walker, Jim (January 1, 1976). Lines of Pacific Electric: Southern & Western Districts (Special 60) (Second Printing ed.). Glendale, California: Interurban Press. p. 26.
^ Crise, Steve; Patris, Michael A. (2011). Pacific Electric Railway (Then and Now). Arcadia Publishing. p. 24. ISBN 978-0738575865.
^ Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. pp. 10, 11. ASIN B0007F8D84.