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Antique Post CardPosted Mount Lowe, California
Circa Early 1900's With Stamp
The Mount Lowe Railway was the third in a series of scenic mountain railroads in America created as a tourist attraction on Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe , north of Los Angeles, California . The railway, originally incorporated by Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe as the Pasadena & Mt. Wilson Railroad Co.[ 1] existed from 1893 until its official abandonment in 1938, and had the distinction of being the only scenic mountain, electric traction (overhead electric trolley ) railroad ever built in the United States. Lowe’s partner and engineer was David J. Macpherson , a civil engineer graduate of Cornell University . The Mount Lowe Railway was a fulfillment of 19th century Pasadenans' desire to have a scenic mountain railroad to the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains .
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