O
Overview
LocaleLos Angeles
Service
TypeStreetcar
SystemLos Angeles Railway
History
Opened1918 (1918)
ClosedAugust 3, 1947 (1947-08-03)
Technical
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification600 V DC overhead line
Route map

1926–1947
 Lincoln Park
 Mission and Lincoln Park
 10 
 Main and Mission
 Main and Griffith
 Main and Daly
 Main and Avenue 20
 Main and Lamar
Southern Pacific RR
Los Angeles River
Santa Fe RR
 Main and Macy
 B   F 
 Main and Temple
 Main and 1st
 P 
 Main and 2nd
 9 
 Main and 3rd
 Main and 4th
 Main and 5th
 D   U   3 
 Main and 6th
Pacific Electric
 Main and 7th
 J   R   S 
 Main and 9th
 7   8 
 Main and 11th
 5 
 Main and 11th
 Main and 12th
 Main and Venice
 Main and Washington
 Main and Adams
 Main and Jefferson
 F   5 
Pacific Electric Railway
 Main and Broadway Place
 Main and Santa Barbara
 7   8 
 Main and Vernon
 V 
 Main and 53rd
 Main and Slauson
Down arrow opened 1931
 Main and 61st
 Main and Florence
Los Angeles Railway lines
other lines

O was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway and ran until 1947.

History

The O was formed from branches of existing lines. It ran on Main Street and 8th Street then to 1st and Virgil Avenue. Service began in 1918. Two years later, and was largely cut back to only run on Main Street with the northern end also running on Sunset Boulevard, North Spring Street, and Ord Street.[1] The route was assigned the letter designation O in 1921.[2][3]

The line was extended north on February 3, 1924, leaving the old route at Spring and Ord and reaching Cypress to Verdugo Road, where an interchange with the Glendale and Montrose Railway was located.[4] This service lasted four months before the terminus was reverted to Spring and Ord.[1]

The line was extended north again on July 4, 1926 via Main Street and Mission Road to Selig Place, adjacent to Lincoln Park.[5] An additional extension south to Florence was built during the Great Depression in 1931. This routing remained until the line was discontinued on August 3, 1947.[1]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 "'O'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  2. ↑ "May 1: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History". Metro Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved February 16, 2022. 1921: Large letter signs indicating the routes of different lines are placed on top of Los Angeles Railway streetcars.
  3. ↑ "Cars To Have Letter Signs" (PDF). Two Bells. Vol. 1, no. 48. Los Angeles Railway. May 2, 1921. p. 1. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  4. ↑ "New Car Routings for L.A. Railway". Los Angeles Daily News. February 1, 1924. p. 12. Retrieved July 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  5. ↑ H.P. Noordwal (1938). "Route Map Los Angeles Railway Electric Car and Bus Routes" (Map). Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Los Angeles Railway. "Alternate link" (Map). via Google.


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