Amoco_Junction

Amoco Junction, Los Angeles

Amoco Junction, Los Angeles

Railway site, California

Amoco Junction was a junction on the Pacific Electric Railway's Southern District. It was located in Nevin, South Central Los Angeles at 25th Street and Long Beach Boulevard. It was named after a nearby American Olive Company (AmOCo) plant.[1][2][3][4] It was the junction where the Santa Monica Air Line split off from the Watts, Long Beach and other Southern District Lines.[5][6] It was one of several points at which a tower crossed the quadruple tracks between Downtown Los Angeles and Watts.[7] Despite being a junction, many lines did not stop at Amoco, which was only served by local cars and the Air Line.[8][full citation needed] Service was provided to Amoco Junction between 1904 and 1958. Though it is located along the route of the Los Angeles Metro A Line, it is not a stop or station on it, nor did it become a station on the Expo Line that replaced the Santa Monica Air Line.

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The tower at Amoco Junction, 1904

References

  1. [1]
    Crise, Steve; Patris, Michael A. (2011). Pacific Electric Railway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 9780738575865.
  2. [2]
    "Trains At Amoco Junction, ca. 1950". Metro Library and Archive. Los Angeles Metro.
  3. [3]
    "Our Neighbors". Los Angeles Times. June 1, 1930. Retrieved February 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  4. [4]
    Spitzzeri, Paul R. (April 27, 2020). "Take It On Faith From Point A to Point B with a Pacific Electric Railway Pamphlet With A Spiritualism Connection, April 1928". Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  5. [5]
    Hilton, George W.; Due, John F. (2000) [1960]. The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0-8047-4014-3.
  6. [6]
    Caltrans (February 1982). "1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. pp. 84, 108. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  7. [7]
    Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. pp. 79, 80, 133. ASIN B0007F8D84. OCLC 6565577.
  8. [8]
    Pacific Electric Railway Guide: Names and locations of stops, cross streets and important points of interest on or Adjacent to Lines of the Pacific Electric Railway. Orange Empire Railway Museum.

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