Some twenty years ago we had friends who lived a house away from the abandoned railroad cut through Cheviot Hills and Rancho Park in West LA. Our kids were the same age and we visited them often. Everytime we went there I would wander over to the abandoned railroad cut and imagine the PE Steeple Cabs or SP Cruds that had run through there (the latter as recently as ten years prior to that). At the time, little did I know that one day that cut would have a train through it every seven minutes or so. LA Metro Rail's Expo Line (soon to be renamed th E Line) runs in the ROW of the original Los Angeles & Independence Railroad (later Southern Pacific, later Los Angeles Pacific, later Pacific Electric, later Southern Pacific again). Here are some images taken from the footbridge that runs to my old friends' house (they moved away many years ago though).
