The Ninth Street Line was built by the Los Angeles Railway in 1895 and ran via Spring Street, 9th Street, and Park View to a junction with the Lincoln Heights Line at 10th and Hoover Streets. From there both routes ran along West 10th Street to a terminus at Vermont Avenue. Circa 1911, the Park View section was eliminated and the route was extended along 9th Street, Vermont, and 8th Street to a loop at Western Avenue.[1]
In 1920, the line was rerouted, operating from 8th and Harvard via 8th; Vermont; 9th; Spring; 2nd; Traction Way; 3rd; and Santa Fe to 2nd, terminating at the Los Angeles Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station.[2] It was given the letter designation N in 1921.[3][4]
Tracks were laid on a newly-rebuilt Spring Street in June 1932, extending the line to the Sunset Boulevard Plaza.[5][6][7] Cars were temporarily routed to Union Station as the line's northern terminal between May 1939 and June 1946.[8][9] In 1950 the route was removed, though the 8th Street section of the line continued to run as part of the re-routed S line.[1]
Sources
^ ab"'N'". Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
^"May 1: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History". Metro Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved February 16, 2022. 1921: Large letter signs indicating the routes of different lines are placed on top of Los Angeles Railway streetcars.
^"Cars To Have Letter Signs"(PDF). Two Bells. Vol. 1, no. 48. Los Angeles Railway. May 2, 1921. p. 1. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
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