Great Incline Railroad to Mount Lowe, Ca.

Collection: Landscapes

Title

Great Incline Railroad to Mount Lowe, Ca.

Subject

Mount Lowe Railway

California

Description

On verso:
No. 210. GREAT INCLINE RAILROAD TO MOUNT LOWE, CALIFORNIA.
• " . .*
From Los Angeles, through Pasadena and Altadena, electric railway cars run to Rubio Canyon, a distance of sixteen miles. There, from an altitude of 2,200 feet, the cable incline conveys visitors to the summit of Echo Mountain, nearly 1,400 feet higher. From this point, where there is the Lowe Observatory (with a 16-inch equatorial telescope open to visitors) and a collection of native wild animals, radiate many miles of bridle paths, and another electric railway extends to still loftier heights at the Alpine tavern, nearly a mile aboye the sea, and within a thousand feet of the summit, which is reached by bridle path. There is no more pleasurable mountain trip than this, nor one more easy of accomplishment. Sufficiently elevated above its surroundings to afford commanding views which stretch across wondrously fertile valleys to other ranges upon the one hand and to the coastwise islands of the Pacific upon the other, the total altitude is not great enough to distress those who suffer from the rarity of the air on more exalted summits.
A8523

Creator

[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]

Source

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Publisher

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Date

ca. 1900

Rights

No Copyright – United States

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Stereographs

Identifier

210