B
Overview
LocaleLos Angeles
Service
TypeStreetcar
SystemLos Angeles Railway
Daily ridership13,185 (1940)[1]
History
OpenedMay 9, 1920 (1920-05-09)
ClosedDecember 5, 1948 (1948-12-05)
Technical
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification600 V DC overhead line
Route map
 E 
 Evergreen and Wabash
 Evergreen and Blanchard
 Evergreen and Malabar
 Evergreen and Brooklyn
 E 
 Brooklyn and Mott
 Brooklyn and Soto
 Brooklyn and St. Louis
 Brooklyn and State
 Brooklyn and Boyle
 Brooklyn and Echandia
 Brooklyn and Warren
 Brooklyn and Macy
US 99 (1961 cutout).svg
US 99
Ramona Parkway
Pacific Electric
 Macy and Mission
Union Pacific RR
Los Angeles River
Santa Fe RR
 Macy and Lyon
 Macy and Vignes
Union Pacific RR Santa Fe RR
Southern Pacific RR
 Union Station
 F 
 Macy and Alameda
 Macy and Main
 Main and Sunset
 Main and Temple
 Main and 1st
 P 
 Main and 2nd
 8 
 Main and 3rd
 9 
 Main and 4th
 Main and 5th
 Main and 6th
Pacific Electric
 Main and 7th
 J   R   S   7 
 Main and 8th
 Main and 9th
 7   8 
 Broadway Place
 5 
 Main and 11th
 Main and 12th
 F   5   7   8 
 12th and Los Angeles
 12th and Maple
 12th and San Pedro
 S 
 12th and Stanford
 12th and Central
 12th and Hooper
 Hooper and 14th
 Hooper and 16th
 Hooper and Washington
 Hooper and 22nd
 Hooper and Adams
 Hooper and 32nd
 Ascot and 32nd
 Ascot and 34th
 Ascot and 38th
 Ascot and 41st
 Ascot and 42nd
 Ascot and Vernon
 V 
 Ascot and 46th
 Ascot and 48th
 Ascot and 51st
Los Angeles Railway lines
other lines

The B was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1948, originally running from Ramona Boulevard and Miller Street in East Los Angeles to Ascot Avenue and 51st Street.

History

Brooklyn and Ascot Lines (1895–1911)

The first Brooklyn line was built in 1895 by the Los Angeles Consolidated Railway as a horsecar road. It terminated at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Evergreen Avenue. The line was electrified the following year and rerouted downtown. In 1902 the route was bought by the Pacific Electric Railway to be standard gauged, but never was. In 1908, the Brooklyn Avenue Line ran from Arcade Depot to Evergreen Cemetery via 5th Street, Main Street, Macy, Pleasant Avenue, Bridge, and Brooklyn Avenue.[2]

Following the Great Merger of 1911, control of the route returned to the Los Angeles Railway. They extended the route north and east along Evergreen and Wabash Avenues to the city limits in 1915.[3]

Expansion and later removal (1911–1949)

The line was rerouted on May 9, 1920[4] and given the letter designation B the following year.[5][6] Tracks on 9th Street were taken over by the N Line and the remaining service was merged with the Ascot Line, a previously unconnected route which ran by way of Main Street, 12th Street, Hooper Avenue, a private right-of-way alongside the Santa Monica Air Line, and Ascot Avenue.[7][3] (A section of this, between Adams Boulevard and 41st Street, has since been filled in.)

In 1924, rush hour trips were extended northeast along the newly built Harrison Street (later Ramona Boulevard, and later still City Terrace Drive) to Alma Street in East Los Angeles.[3] Completion of the Macy Street Bridge in April 1926 allowed through-routing to Brooklyn Heights.[8] The line began serving Union Station upon its opening in 1939.[9] The final extension of the line was north to City Terrace and Miller Street on March 13, 1931.[3][10] Streetcars were replaced with trolleybuses on December 5, 1948.[11]

Sources

  1. ↑ Breivogel, Milton; Bate, Stuart (1942). Mass Transit Facilities and Master Plan of Parkways (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles City Planning Commission. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ Wood, J. Henry (1907). Security Map And Street Railway Guide of the City of Los Angeles and Vicinity with Map of Beaches and nearby Points of Interest (Map). Los Angeles, California: Security Savings Bank. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "'B'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Street Car Rerouting". Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. May 5, 1920. p. 10. Retrieved February 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "Cars To Have Letter Signs" (PDF). Two Bells. Vol. 1, no. 48. Los Angeles Railway. May 2, 1921. p. 1. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  7. ↑ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Terrass, John (1922). Study and Plan of Relief of the Street Traffic Congestion in the City of Los Angeles, California (PDF) (Thesis). University of California. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Cars Operating on Macy Bridge". Los Angeles Times. April 6, 1926. p. 2. Retrieved February 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  9. ↑ "They have Streamlined the Pueblo". Los Angeles Times. May 6, 1939. p. 7. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "New Trackless Trolleys Mark Changeover on the 'B' Line". California Eagle. December 9, 1948. p. 4. Retrieved December 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon


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