Talk:Mount Lowe Railway

Untitled
This article has been completely rewritten and will undergo a series of inline references in an attempt to attain Feature Article nomination.Magi Media 06:28, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Magi Media

O.M. & M. R. R.
As it appears at the upper end of the Mount Lowe Railway on the following map: What was that?

Peter Horn 13:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry if I overlooked the OMMRR in my article, but it's not really part of the MLR. The OM&M (one man and a mule) was a small tourist attraction started by a man who had taken up a sort of residency at the Tavern. He used the OMM as a means of income to pay for his stay. He suffered from tuberculosis and the drier California climate of the time was a place for more ailing people to come.


 * Mr. Z., short for Zetterwall, laid one mile of rickety track along four major peaks, they all had names like John Muir Peak and Observation Peak, and his mule Herbert would push a two side-seater cart with passengers, maybe a dozen or so, down and back on the tracks from Inspiration Point. The story is on my website book, Man, Mountain, and Monument, Chapter 16. --Magi Media 14:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

More photos available at LAPL website
I've been looking for Altadena photos, and I noticed the LA Public Library's excellent photo collection has many free-PD photos of this railway system. Feel free to mine it. --Bobak 21:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:PE logo.png
The image Image:PE logo.png is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check


 * That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
 * That this article is linked to from the image description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. --03:00, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The lede is too long.
Nice article, but most of the lede should be moved to the History section. GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway
The Mt. Lowe Railway had more controllers than listed missing is Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway. The below will be add unless there is a reply - fixes.

In 1896 Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe ceded control of the his Pasadena & Mount Wilson Railroad, Mount Lowe Railway, that took visitors high in the Angeles National Forest to the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway Co, due to high maintenance cost he was not able keep it going. Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway keep the name the same: Pasadena & Mount Wilson Railroad Co. Along with high operating cost, in 1896 Lowe lost a franchise to build electric railway from Altadena to Pasadena and the franchise went to the Pasadena & Los Angeles Electric Railway.

Assessment comment
Substituted at 00:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified (February 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Mount Lowe Railway. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20061127024451/http://mraltadena.com/mount_lowe_rr/loweframeset.html to http://mraltadena.com/mount_lowe_rr/loweframeset.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20061127024451/http://mraltadena.com/mount_lowe_rr/loweframeset.html to http://www.mraltadena.com/mount_lowe_rr/loweframeset.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070107071108/http://www.stanford.edu/%7Escamp/mountlowe/ to http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/mountlowe

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:01, 6 February 2018 (UTC)