L.A. Metro Blue Line 1991, Part 1: Los Angeles - Long Beach
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- Part 1 of a round trip on the Los Angeles Metro Blue Line (now a part of the A Line). Recorded March 14, 1991, less than a month after the line's completion. Click the links below for Part 2 and a speeded-up version of the whole trip.
Part 2 (Long Beach to L.A.): • L.A. Metro Blue Line 1...
Round trip (x8 speed): • Los Angeles Metro: Blu...
Contents:
0:00 At 7th St/Metro Center
4:00 7th St - Pico
7:54 Pico - Grand
11:42 Grand - San Pedro
15:06 San Pedro - Washington
18:53 Washington - Vernon
20:40 Vernon - Slauson
22:35 Slauson - Florence
24:32 Florence - Firestone
26:30 Firestone - 103rd St
28:43 103rd St/Watts - Imperial
30:30 Imperial - Compton
33:42 Compton - Artesia
36:10 Artesia - Del Amo
39:04 Del Amo - Wardlow
42:27 Wardlow - Willow
44:40 Willow - PCH
48:08 Pacific Coast Highway - Anaheim
50:16 Anaheim - 5th St
53:24 5th St - 1st St
54:48 1st St - Transit Mall
I remember this, before the red line opened. I remember looking down at the red line platform and feeling excited, couldn't wait for it to open.
Great throwback video! Pretty rare to see a 90s video of the golden age of the Metro Blue Line.
And we've never seen 7th & Metro so clean ever again.
For real! It's 2023, and to be honest, this staion is not that dirty. The one that's very dirty, and smelly and full of transients, is Westlake/MacArthur Park station!
Not a Zombie in sight
@@joelpaniagua2024 Did you know that Los Angeles first subway is located on Hill Street and 4th?? It was operated by Pacific Electric Red Cars from 1925 until 1955.
@SuperheroJunior It wasn't a subway. It was a single dead-end tunnel for the trollies to get into the Terminal Building in DTLA. It wasn't that long, either. The entrance was off of Sunset.
@@joelpaniagua2024The Westlake station has gotten a lot better in the last 10 months.
3 years before I got hired, train still had the non standard AAR Guage (note the smooth ride with no lateral movement), the old Air Horns and Data Head Communications system which was a maintenance nightmare. Miss those trains, I worked on them for 27 years.
The good ol' days! when it was safe and clean!
19:36 SP ex-PE Santa Monica Air Line - Amoco Diamond crossing
That was the best part!
This is so cool to see. I always enjoy watching footage of LA from previous decades to see how it looked then vs. how it looks now. Most of the time things look nearly identical, like large buildings and freeways, it's just the people's style and technology that reflect the time. The area around Pico station on Flower looks nothing like that today, being heavily developed since then. It's also hard to ignore the lack of homelessness present on the train, stations, and surrounding streets when they're visible. It really highlights the stark difference that is today's reality using LA's public transit, especially using the A / B / D Lines.
My mom and I took the bus from Hollywood on blue line opening day, we waited in line to ride it.
Great upload , LA great place to visit, greeting from Texas 😊full supported 57:19
I remember back in the day you could open the windows on the Blue Line.
we used metal Tie wraps to seal them shut because cars were flooding in the car wash after the roof gutters were removed.
19:37 - crossing the old SP Santa Monica Branch line (which probably didn't go very far anyway from this point west), this junction/crossing got removed shortly after, good thing you got this. As a kid, I vividly remember crossing that junction when I rode the Blue Line.
The horns on this train sound like a screeching elephant
Back then, the Metro Blue Line (now the A Line since 2020) was a lot different than today.
1. All light rail trains were Nippon Sharyo P865's with original LACTC red and blue stripes livery. All P865's had airhorns at that time before getting the electronic Nathan K5LA horns and gong bells. Since 2018, all P865's have been retired in favor of modern Kinkisharyo P3010's. The Blue Line also runs Siemens P2000 and AnsaldoBreda P2550 light rail trains from the Gold Line (now L Line since 2020).
2. All stations had shorter platforms due to the Blue Line running two car trains at that time. Since 2001, all Blue Line station platforms have been lengthened to accommodate three car trains.
3. All railroad crossing signals on the Blue Line used to have mechanical bells and incandescent warning lights. Today, since 2005, all crossings on the Blue Line have LED warning lights and electronic bells.
4. All stations' signage used to be formatted in gray with white Helvetica Bold text and blue stripes. Today since 2019, all signs have been replaced with newer white Scala Sans and DIN Bold text on black format.
5. Also, back then, 7th Street/Metro Center station didn't have the overhead illuminated station signage, due to Red Line (now B Line since 2020) construction at that time.
Also I heard no announcements. When did that start? I'm guessing around when the P2000s came in.
@@QuarioQuario54321 The driver can be heard briefly announcing most of the station names.
@@NHGMitchell but no auto announcement. When did that start?
@@QuarioQuario54321the first line to have it was the green line I remember the Siemens only having it the rest of fleet was manual
@@QuarioQuario54321 mid 2000s, like 2005-ish
My beautiful Long Beach has changed tremendously growing up in the mid 80’s through the 90’s 😢 gentrification killed downtown! 🖕Corporate greed obliterated old buildings with beautiful architecture and charm!
Blue line has horizontal traffic lights in Long Beach
At one point, the LA streets were actually clean?
Sort of.
Yup till like 2012-2014
czcams.com/video/L9Kl2uYu6Ws/video.html
The same areas still look relatively clean.
not really, this is just a low def video.
@@fobikloko6368 Sounds about right from what I remember.
Red line has horizontal traffic lights .
I prefer the air horns to the electronic ones.
I'd hope on the newer cars they'd dual or triple mounted air horns operated by a lanyard.
They had to be removed because the Rich people in Bixby Knolls were complaining they were too loud, that is also why they built the sound wall by the LA River crossing.
These trains just don't have traffic signal priority.