5 (Los Angeles Railway)

Initially a steam railroad built in 1887,[2] the southern portion of the route began as the Inglewood Division, one of the main lines of the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway.Before this, all routes northeast had to run along Main Street at the Plaza de los Angeles, but now all of Broadway enjoyed direct, continuous service.It was along Broadway that the Eagle Rock Line was re-routed, bypassing most of Lincoln Heights, while increasing service to Solano Canyon and Little Italy.[9][10] An additional line designated as 6 followed the same route,[11] but short turned at Avenue 45 in Eagle Rock and Arbor Vitae in Inglewood and ran until 1937.(Type H cars had originally been designed for service on the E Line in 1920, but were used elsewhere in the network after having tested poorly on the route shortly after delivery.
Geographic map; 5 is in magenta
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