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Description. Los Angeles County Metro Rail and Metro Liner map.svg. English: A map showing rail and bus rapid transit service operated by Metro in Los Angeles, California. Deutsch: Karte der Stadtbahnen und Schnellbusse in Los Angeles (Stand: Frühling 2013) Español: Mapa del Metro de Los Ángeles en el 2013. 日本語: 2013年春時点での ...
1848. February 2: Los Angeles becomes part of U.S. territory per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 1849 – Lieutenant Edward Ord surveyed Los Angeles to confirm and extend the streets of the city. His survey put the city into the real-estate business, creating its first real-estate boom and filling its treasury. [9]
The Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service, sometimes referred to as simply the Times-Post News Service, was a joint news agency in the United States that was created as a partnership between the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and existed from 1962 to 2009. It served to provide news coverage to its clients, which numbered ...
Jack Clifford Smith (August 27, 1916 – January 9, 1996) was a Los Angeles journalist, author, and newspaper columnist.His daily column, which ran in the Los Angeles Times for 37 years, expressed "keen observations of the life he loved in ever-surprising Southern California" and was described by former Los Angeles Times Editor Shelby Coffey III as "one of the abiding highlights of the Los ...
The publisher of the Los Angeles Times since June 16, 2018, has been Patrick Soon-Shiong, who purchased the newspaper from the Tribune Company of Chicago. Soon-Shiong replaced Ross Levinsohn, who was appointed to the position in August of 2017 following the firing of publisher Davan Maharaj. [1] The publisher is typically a newspaper's top ...
Coupling system. Tomlinson / Dellner [1] Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The P2550 is an articulated high-floor electric light rail vehicle manufactured by AnsaldoBreda for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's Metro Rail system. [2]
The C Line (formerly the Green Line from 1995 to 2020) is a 19.3-mile (31.1 km) [3] light rail line running between Redondo Beach and Norwalk within Los Angeles County, California. It is one of six lines forming the Los Angeles Metro Rail system and opened on August 12, 1995. [4]
Number Builder Type Date Works number Notes; 1st #1 Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company: 4-6-0: 1882 865 purchased from San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad #56 in 1905 and used for construction until scrapped in 1906 2nd #1 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-6-0: 1/1906 27285 purchased new, scrapped by 1948. 2 Baldwin Locomotive Works ...