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The streetcar heading toward Glendale in front of the Bessolo house at the top of the hill. The house, considerably remodeled, still exists. The four-story Colorado Terrace building now hides it. (ERVHS)

The Glendale and Montrose car to Eagle Rock has turned on Broadway from Wilson in the background. William Nagle stands at the corner. The bench advertises Eagle Rock Drug Co. “Buy your drugs ice cream sodas etc.” “Kodak supplies a specialty” (Glendale Public Library)

The streetcar, headed toward Glendale, is shown in front of the station on Glendale Avenue. (Los Angeles Herald)

Frank Hilliard posed in the door of the streetcar on Broadway in Glendale headed toward Eagle Rock. E. D Goode’s son Ray stands by on the street. The building in the background was the Glendale Sanitarium, ancestor of todays Glendale Adventist Medical Center. It was built as the Glendale Hotel in the center of Glendale at the height of the boom of the 1880’s. It also served as St. Hilda’s Academy, an Episcopalian High School and the first Union High School, serving Glendale, Eagle Rock and several other small communities. (Glendale Public Library)

The Eagle Rock car stands at the Glendale end of the line on Broadway at Brand Boulevard. This was the connection point to the Pacific Electric line into the foothills. (Glendale Public Library)

A map of the Eagle Rock branch of the then Glendale and Montrose Railway. The railway played a vital part in the building of our city, delivering freight to Eagle Rock from the railhead in Glendale. It ran west from Brand on Broadway, jogged north on Glendale to Wilson, west to Broadway then Colorado to Eagle Rock Boulevard. In 1917 a rail spur was built running south, parallel to the boulevard, probably along the alley behind the stores. A small station may have been built along this line but no record of its location has been found. (Southern California Railway Museum)

Elena Frackelton Murdock’s railway pass, issued by E.D. Goode. Mrs. Murdock recalled that Goode’s son Ray was the first successful birth among the English-speaking residents of the valley. (Murdock Family Collection, ERVHS)

E. D. Goode was a pioneer in both Eagle Rock and Glendale. It is unclear when he moved to Glendale. At the time of the railway’s founding the Los Angeles Herald stated, “ E. D. Goode can always be depended on to take a leading and active part in whatever is proposed for the upbuilding of Glendale.” He organized the Glendale Union High School to which Eagle Rock sent its students until Eagle Rock High School was built, advocated for the incorporation of Glendale and the building of the Pacific Electric Railway along the foothills. (Los Angeles Herald)

The opening day of the Glendale and Eagle Rock Railway was March 13,1909. Said to be a “wedding between Glendale and Eagle Rock.” This photo was taken looking southeast at the corner of Glendale Avenue and Broadway in Glendale. On the left is Motorman J. S. Alpine, then Conductor, John Marvel. Above the “X” is E. D. Goode, “the moving spirit behind the enterprise.” (LAPL Security Bank Collection)

5 Line Sign, probably from near the end of the life of the line. (ERVHS)