Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ory Covered—Power Plants—Sub-Stations. The city of Los Angeles .iiid ils siilnirlis to llie north, east andsouth are served by two large street railway systems which areoperated in harmony inider practically one management. Botli com-panies are owned by the same interests and the entire system has atrackage of somewhat over 300 miles measured as single track. Theterritory covered by the intcriirban divisions is shown on the ac-companying map. The Los Angeles Railway Co. was organized Mar. 20, 1895, by quired all the street railways in the city operated by animal power.The control of the Los Angeles Railway Co. was acquired by thepresent owners Oct. I, l8g8. The system now includes about 175miles of track, nearly all of which is double track, all locatedwithin the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1898 the Pacific Electric Railway Co., operating in Los An-geles, purchased the Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Ry., thePasadena & Mt. Lowe Electric Ry., the Temple Street Cable Ry..
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POWKU HOUSE AND U: iⓂ️ the purchase and consolidation of the Los Angeles Railway Co., theMain Street & Agricultural Park Railway Co., and the San PedroSt. line. The corporations had acquired by consolidation and pur-chase at various times, the Los Angeles Cable Railway Co., theLos Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway Co., the Mateo Street& .Santa Fc Avenue Street Car Co., the Los Angeles & VernoUStreet Car Co., and the Depot Railway Co. These various cor-porations, particularly the Los Angeles Cable Railway Co., had ac- • Benldefl the Parlflc Kloctric Railway and the Ix)b AngeleH Rail-way eompanlfrfi there are In Ijon AnKeloH four other companloH: 1.The I>o#i Anfcelefi Traction Co., opcrallnf? three lines, ajfKrcKatlnK26 mile* In I.,oii Angf-leii. 2. The fallfornta-Paclflc, the TractioncompfinyH Inttmrhfin road between I»h AnfcIeR and San reclrri.I. \xi» AnKNn Iaeinc II. K., operntInK ileverni llneM («2 mllcH InalO frrim I.*m AnKelf-H to the oeean hejicheB, 4. I.

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