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Turquoise Room lounge car on the Santa Fe’s Super Chief train.
The flagship train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was the service between Chicago and Los Angeles, called the Super Chief. They called it “The Train of the Stars” because of the celebrities who took it, often from … Continue reading
Harvey House restaurant, Los Angeles Union Station, 1939
Harvey House was a chain railroad meal stops along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway line. The last stop on that line was Los Angeles and at Union Station, and as we can see from this 1939 photo, the … Continue reading
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Waiting room of Los Angeles Union Station, 1939
There are few buildings left in Los Angeles that look pretty much as they did when they were first built. The waiting room at LA’s Union Station is one of them. This photo was taken in 1939, the year it … Continue reading
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La Grande railway station, downtown Los Angeles, 1930
The La Grande Station was the Los Angeles terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It opened in 1893 at the corner of 2nd St and Santa Fe Ave in downtown L.A. This photo was taken in 1930 … Continue reading
Ticketing hall at Central Station, corner of Central Ave and 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles.
This is the ticketing hall at Central Station, located in downtown Los Angeles at Central Ave and 5th Street. It replaced the Arcade Depot and was rendered obsolete when Union Station was built in the 1930s.
Union Station, downtown L.A., 1940s
I love the sunlight shining directly on the tower of Union Station on the edge of downtown L.A. – it’s almost like it’s getting ready for its close-up. (circa 1940s)
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Union Station interior, downtown Los Angeles, December 12th, 1939
One of my favorite buildings in Los Angeles is Union Station, the railway station built in 1939 (it just celebrated its 75th anniversary) at the height of transcontinental rail travel. (After WWII, the preferred mode would switch more and more … Continue reading
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Miniature railway venice loop at the end of Windward Avenue, Venice, Los Angeles, circa 1905
This miniature railway looped at the end of Windward Avenue in Venice. This shot was taken circa 1905, which puts it at around the time Venice was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort town.
Interior of a passenger rail car on its way to California 1880s
In the 1880s, Los Angeles experienced one of its biggest booms when the transcontinental railways finally came to L.A. thus providing people with a (relatively) comfortable way to travel from coast to coast. I’ve read a lot about that era, … Continue reading