The Train Took Us There 10.16.09

The LARy W rounding the curve at Monte Vista. Photo from the Metro Library and Archive.

I’ve always wondered why there was such a wide unpaved shoulder alongside Marmion Way from where it curves into Monte Vista Street to where the Southwest Museum Station is. This photo helps solve that question. It is because that section is still technically part of a railroad right-a-way.

The 83 Bus rounds Monte Vista into Marmion Way 67 years after the W did.

Only a couple of things remain from that earlier photo. The house on the right is still there. Remnants of the arroyo stone wall that was a feature along Marmion Way from Figueroa to Avenue 50 can be seen behind Highland Park’s newest stop sign where a railroad crossing sign once stood. Oh, one other thing remains here: Public Transportation, now in the form of this MTA bus.