Many phrases have been used to describe the Mount Lowe Railway, an ambitious feat of engineering that, at the turn of the 20th century, was one of the most popular attractions in Southern California.

The Mount Lowe Railway cost "three times as much per mile to build as any other mountain railway in the world," according to Charles Seims in the book Trolley Days in Pasadena.

From 1893 to 1936, four million people rode the Mount Lowe railway, the last portion containing only 224 feet of straight track. No injuries were ever reported related to the railway, he said.

An engineering marvel when built in the 1890s, the Mt. Lowe Railway above Pasadena and Altadena lived a checkered past full of both glory and destruction. Before its final abandonment in the mid ...

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Call it 19th-century L.A.’s idea of a thrill ride. Leaving the safety of the granite slopes, trolley cars raced out onto a creaking, cantilevered wooden trestle, soaring over a 1000-foot sheer ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Mount Lowe Electric Mountain Railway ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 79 No. 18 (October 1898), p. 279 doi:10.1038 ...

1 of 7 — Cog Railway 2024 NHPR photo Zoey Knox I’ve summited Mount Washington maybe eight times, and had the privilege of covering the classic Mount Washington Road Race this past June. One ...

For more than a century, hikers have trekked to a patch of flat land tucked into the San Gabriel Mountains below Mount Lowe ...

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At the time, a vast amount of infrastructure and amenities existed in the Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain areas, including four hotels and an unbelievably steep cable car railway that lugged ...