5 (Los Angeles Railway)

5
Overview
Other name(s)	E (1920–1932)
Owner	Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority
Locale	Los Angeles, Inglewood, Lennox, and Hawthorne
Termini	Colorado Boulevard and Townsend Street (1920–48) Colorado Boulevard and Eagle Rock Boulevard (1948–55) Hawthorne Boulevard and Broadway (Hawthorne)
Stations	112
Service
Type	Streetcar
System	Los Angeles Railway (1920–45) Los Angeles Transit Lines (1945–58) Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (1958–63)
Daily ridership	15,988 (1940)[1]
History
Opened	1920
Closed	May 22, 1955 (1955-05-22)
Technical
Line length	21.8 mi (35.1 km)[2] (1920–48) 21.4 mi (34.4 km) (1948–55)
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	Overhead line, 600 V DC
Route map Legend 1932–1955 Colorado and Townsend Colorado and Mount Royal Colorado and Argus Colorado and Highland View Colorado and Maywood discontinued 1948 Colorado and Eagle Rock Eagle Rock and Yosemite Eagle Rock and Chickasaw Eagle Rock and Norwalk Eagle Rock and Westdale Eagle Rock and Avenue 45  6  Eagle Rock and York Eagle Rock and El Paso Eagle Rock and Avenue 41 Eagle Rock and Verdugo Eagle Rock and Avenue 38 Eagle Rock and Avenue 36 Eagle Rock and Avenue 35 Eagle Rock and Avenue 34 Eagle Rock and Avenue 33 Eagle Rock and Avenue 31 Eagle Rock and Cypress Cypress and Division Cypress and Macon Cypress and Elm Cypress and Arvia Cypress and Alice Cypress and Maseo Cypress and Pepper Avenue 28 and Idell Avenue 28 and Figueroa Figueroa and Avenue 22 Figueroa and San Fernando SR 11 Pasadena Freeway Arroyo Seco Santa Fe RR San Fernando and Humboldt San Fernando and Pasadena Pasadena and Broadway Southern Pacific RR Los Angeles River Santa Fe RR Solano Canyon Little Italy New Chinatown Broadway and College Broadway and Alpine Broadway and Sunset Broadway and Arcadia US 101 Hollywood Freeway Broadway and Temple Broadway and 1st  P  Broadway and 3rd Broadway and 4th Broadway and 5th Broadway and 6th Broadway and 7th  J   R   S  Broadway and 8th Broadway and 9th Broadway Place  P  Main and 11th Main and 12th Main and Pico Main and Venice Main and Washington Main and 23rd Main and Adams Main and 30th Main and Jefferson Jefferson and Broadway Jefferson and Grand  J  Grand and 37th Grand and 39th I-110 Santa Barbara and Figueroa Santa Barbara and Hoover Santa Barbara and Vermont  V  Santa Barbara and Budlong Santa Barbara and Normandie Santa Barbara and Halldale Santa Barbara and Denker Santa Barbara and Western Santa Barbara and Grammercy Santa Barbara and Arlington Santa Barbara and 4th Avenue Leimert and Sutro Leimert and Stocker Leimert and 43rd Leimert and Vernon Crenshaw and 48th  9  Crenshaw and 50th Crenshaw and 52nd Crenshaw and 54th  8  Crenshaw and 57th Crenshaw and Slauson Crenshaw and 59th Crenshaw and 60th Crenshaw and 63rd Hyde Park Crenshaw and 67th Redondo and West Los Angeles Inglewood Florence and Redondo Florence and Prairie Florence and Centinela Florence and Hillcrest Pacific Electric Florence and Market Market and Manchester Market and La Brea La Brea and Tamarack La Brea and Arbor Vitae  6  La Brea and Hardy Hawthorne and Century Hawthorne and 104th Inglewood Lennox Hawthorne and Lennox Hawthorne and 111th Lennox Hawthorne Hawthorne and Imperial Highway Hawthorne and 118th Hawthorne and 120th Hawthorne and Broadway Pacific Electric Los Angeles Railway lines other lines This diagram: view talk edit

5 or the 5 Car was a streetcar line operated by the Los Angeles Railway, later named as the Los Angeles Transit Lines, by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. From 1920 to 1932, this route was known as the E Car. This was changed as part of a method to distinguish routes that lacked loops at their termini. Consequently, the 5 Car was unique during the LAMTA era in that it did not use PCC streetcars. It used buses from 1955 to 1964, transferring from LATL in 1958, then splitting the line in two in 1961, until all lines were turned over to SCRTD in August 1964.