An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train leaves La Grande Station, Los Angeles, 1899

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train leaves La Grande Station, Los Angeles, 1899.This shot shows us an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train leaving La Grande Station, which stood at 2nd Street and Santa Fe Ave, just outside of downtown Los Angeles. Is it just me or does it look remarkably bare? Even for 1899? The other noteworthy detail is that in the center-left background is one the 150-foot streetlights, which had been installed to illuminate the railroad yard. There were many of these constructed around LA once electricity had come to town.

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2 responses to “An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train leaves La Grande Station, Los Angeles, 1899”

  1. John Yuma says:
    May 19, 2018 at 10:07 am

    According to this article the “Moon Towers” would seem to be pretty annoying and downright dangerous.

    “An electric candle typically produced a light of 1,500 to 6,000 candlepower, which corresponds to the output of 11 to 43 modern 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. The temperature in the arc could rise to 4,000 degrees Celsius (more than 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest temperature that man achieved until the arrival of the atomic bomb.”

    http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/01/moonlight-towers-light-pollution-in-the-1800s.html

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