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Mount Lowe Railway - the guided tour

Mount Lowe Railway - the guided tour This is a complete trail of Mount Lowe. To the Echo Mountain House hotel, the Alpine Tavern and Inspiration Point. For more information, please visit the sites below ↓ The Scenic Mt. Lowe Railway Historical Committee www.mtlowe.co [to volunteer and gain exclusive access to Mount Lowe] Mount Lowe Preservation Society, Inc. www.mountlowe.org www.mountlowe.org/bookstore www.facebook.com/mountlowe [exclusive pictures, postcards and memorabilia by Michael Patris] Land ~ Sea Discovery Group www.e-adventure.net www.aaaim.com/Echo [wonderful tales published in the "Echo Mountain Echoes" by Jake Brouwer] Lance S. Ferm's website (great-great grandson of Professor Lowe) www.thaddeuslowe.name [excellent source of material of the History of Mount Lowe] Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society www.pacificelectric.org [source of pictures from Mount Lowe] www.e-humanity.org [source of pictures from Mount Lowe] Timeline of the Scenic Mount Lowe Railway: 1832 -- August 20th, Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe is born 1887 -- Professor Lowe and wife move to Los Angeles 1890 -- Professor Lowe and wife move to Pasadena 1892 -- Sept. 24th, Oak Mountain was renamed Mount Lowe 1893 -- July 4th, Grand Opening, the Echo Mountain House was later renamed the Chalet when the new Echo Mountain House was built 1894 -- Sept, the Lowe Observatory was opened 1894 -- Nov. 24th, the Echo Mountain House hotel was constructed 1895 -- Dec. 14th, the Alpine Tavern is opened 1899 -- Professor Lowe was broke, railway went to receivership 1902 -- Henry E. Huntington bought the railway 1905 -- Dec. 9th, winds blew power lines together and ignited a fire which burned the two powerhouses, the Chalet and all other buildings except the Observatory, winds blew off roof of casino 1906 -- The Incline Powerhouse was rebuilt with reinforced concrete. The searchlight from the 1893 World's fair is mounted on top 1909 -- Electrical storm, landslide, rock crushes Pavilion 1916 -- April 23rd, first service held at Easter Rock at sunrise 1925 -- Inspiration Point shelter and picnic shelter were built 1928 -- Gale force winds blew down the Observatory 1936 -- Sept 15th, the Alpine Tavern burned down 1937 -- Dec 5th, the railway made its last official run, actually continued til March 1938 -- March, record rains and floods destroyed much of the lines and trestles 1941 -- land was sold to the Angeles National Forest 1949 -- Mar. 10th, the Sierra Club erected monument and bronze plaque in honor of Sam Merrill 1950 -- Late 1950's the two shelters at Inspiration Point were gone... 1959 -- Alpine Tavern ruins were destroyed to allow for construction of Mt. Lowe trail camp 1960 -- Part of the rock at Granite Gate was removed to widen the trail 1962 -- Forest Service removed the remaining buildings on Echo Mountain 1996 -- During summer, volunteers reconstructed the shelters at Inspiration Point brotherBvideos wishes to thank: Jake Brouwer • Brian Marcroft • Michael Patris • George & Rachel Rios