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The same view at Argus Drive looking west in June of 1948. The track and the raised boarding area are removed. (Alan Weeks photograph)

The streetcar is stopped at Argus Drive. We look west in March of 1948 just before the tracks were removed. The building to the left was incorporated in the Piller’s store. The Women’s Twentieth Century Club building is in the foliage to the right. (Alan Weeks photograph)

The trolley tracks are removed in this view East from Mt. Royal Drive in June of 1948. (Alan Weeks photograph)

The streetscape looking east from Mt. Royal Drive is shown in 1946. The Dahlia Motors building is to the left. A gas station is on the corner to the right. (Southern California Railway Museum, Ray Younghans photograph)

The streetcar is shown near the end of the line at Townsend Avenue in 1946. The switch that allowed the car to return on the double tracked right of way is shown in the foreground. (Southern California Railway Museum, Ray Younghans photograph)

The news story. (ERVHS, publication unknown)

A few years before the line was shot down this accident occurred. The streetcar accelerated due to gravity, coming downhill from Townsend Avenue. It failed to make the turn and crashed into parked cars on Eagle Rock Boulevard near where Chipotle is now. (ERVHS)

6. The intersection of Colorado Boulevard looking east from Eagle Rock Boulevard. The passenger boarding area is shown to the left of the tracks. The sign for Wynn’s Chevrolet dealership is in the center of the photograph. (Southern California Railway Museum, Statsdust photograph)

The business center at Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards had continued to grow in 1927 with the construction of the three story Ritchy Hardware building on Caspar, and the post World War I addition of a trolley waiting area and flag pole in the center of the intersection, dubbed the “Merrie Go Round”. The concrete structure became a great obstacle to increased auto traffic and was removed in the mid-thirties perhaps embodying a shift of priorities from rail to automotive transit. (ERVHS)

The Bailey Block sits isolated on Townsend Avenue at the end of a widened but still dirt street. Behind us the Eagle Rock Road to Garvanza and Pasadena was small and unimproved. Long known as the Murfield block, the building now houses Tritch Hardware. (Courtesy the Elena Frackelton Murdock family)