5 (Los Angeles Railway)

5
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)
History
Opened	1920
Closed	May 22, 1955
Technical
Line length	21.8 mi (35.1 km) (1920–48); 21.4 mi (34.4 km) (1948–55)
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	600 V DC overhead line
Route map
1932–1955
	SR 11
	Pasadena Freeway
	US 101
	Hollywood Freeway
	Los Angeles
	Inglewood
	Inglewood
	Lennox
	Lennox
	Hawthorne

5 or the 5 Car was a streetcar line operated by the Los Angeles Railway, later named the Los Angeles Transit Lines, and 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.

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