A Mt. Lowe Railway observation car traverses Circular Bridge on July 4, 1893.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Echo Mountain House on Flickr.
circa 1890.
This photograph depicts visitors on the veranda of Echo Mountain House looking at the other sites in the complex that became known as the “White City” or the “City on the Mount.” Completed in 1894, this edifice burned to the ground in 1900. Additional fires, floods, and other natural disasters bedeviled the Mt. Lowe Line, bankrupting Professor Lowe iand causing the demise of his railway in 1938.
Echo Mountain House on Flickr.
1898.
This photograph depicts a southwest view of the Echo Mountain House. It was a huge white hotel with a veranda encompassing a sweeping panorama of the mountain and the valley below. The area also included the original Echo Mountain House (“the Chalet”), a dormitory, a powerhouse, a museum, an observatory (at right) and a search light. The entire Echo Mountain complex became known as the “White City” or the “City on the Mount.” Completed in 1894, the Echo Mountain House burned to the ground in 1900.
Great Cable Incline on Flickr.
circa 1910.
This photograph depicts passengers aboard one of the two cars operating on the Great Incline between Rubio Canyon and Echo Mountain on the Mt. Lowe line.
Great Cable Incline on Flickr.
circa 1910.
This photograph depicts the Great Cable Incline at Rubio Canyon. Pacific Electric Railway Company car no. 150 has come from Los Angeles to deliver passengers bound for Mt. Lowe.
Construction of the Alpine Division on Flickr.
circa 1890
This photo depicts laborers constructing right-of-way for the upper section of the Mt. Lowe Alpine Division through Los Flores Canyon. Professor Lowe is seated, center, with binoculars. The Alpine Division was constructed by the California Construction Co. a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lowe family.
Great Cable Incline on Flickr.
June 1922.
A group photo on a Great Cable Incline car at the top, Echo Mountain. One of the traditions of visiting Mount Lowe was having a group photograph taken on the incline.
Lowe Observatory on Flickr.
circa 1895.
16 inch refactor telescope inside the Lowe Observatory, at Echo Mountain.
