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The Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum ( LALSRM) is a non-profit public-benefit corporation founded in 1956 by live steam enthusiasts for the purpose of educating the public about railroad history and lore, and to promote live steam and scale model railroad technology. The museum is located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California and ...
Pacific Electric. The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San ...
The Valley Steam Plant was constructed in 1953 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to provide electricity for Greater Los Angeles. Built on 150 acres (61 ha) in Sun Valley at cost of $80,000,000, it was powered by dual fuel (gas or oil) boilers and had four steam turbines generating a total of 512 MW. [3]
Travel Town Museum is a railway museum dedicated on December 14, 1952, and located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park.The history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s is the primary focus of the museum's collection, with an emphasis on railroading in Southern California and the Los Angeles area.
The Los Angeles Steamship Company or LASSCO was a passenger and freight shipping company based in Los Angeles, California. History [ edit ] The company, incorporated on May 27, 1920, with a capital stock of $5,000,000 and Fred L. Baker of the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company acting as president. [1]
SS Lane Victory at its previous berth by the Vincent Thomas Bridge. / 33.71722°N 118.27333°W / 33.71722; -118.27333. SS Lane Victory is an American Victory-class cargo ship used in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. The ship was preserved in 1989 to serve as a museum ship in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California.
Single-player, multiplayer. Midnight Club: Los Angeles is a 2008 racing video game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It is the fourth and final installment in the Midnight Club series before it was discontinued in January 2010. The game features 43 (58 with DLC) cars and 3 (plus one additional with DLC ...
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 in ( 1,422 mm) Length. 16.67 miles (26.83 km) The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, opened on October 17, 1875, [1] was a steam-powered rail line which ran between the Santa Monica Long Wharf (north of the current Santa Monica Pier) and 5th and San Pedro streets in downtown Los Angeles.