Elevated Electric Railway Built at Pasadena's Hotel Green
A forty-foot-high electric railway linking a Pasadena hotel to its new annex was one of the odder infrastructure projects of the 1890s resort boom — a forgotten piece of hospitality engineering.
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Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Page 2
1 min readPasadena's latest acquisition in the way of a railroad is being constructed between Hotel Green and the new annex. The road is built on solid steel supports and is forty feet from the ground. The cars will be run in an inclosed passage, crossing Raymond avenue and then through the hotel park, a distance of about 100 yards. The journey will be made as noiselessly as possible, and electricity will be the motive power.
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