Substation

Plaza Substation - Debate Over Preservation
... Do You Make a Historical Monument? Tear Down a Historic Building?" Pastier noted that the Plaza Substation was the largest and most distinctive of the three surviving Yellow Car substations and urged the ... writers at the times were divided over preservation of the substation, as another columnist sided with the city and wrote "Saving the MTA Powerhouse in the Plaza is ... it worth a continuing place along Olvera Street because it was a substation for our early transit system? Because it survives as a sturdy example of good contractor's performance ...

Los Angeles Plaza Historic District - Major Sites - Plaza Substation
... The Plaza Substation was part of the electric streetcar system operated by the Los Angeles Railway ... Completed in 1904, the substation provided electricity to power the yellow streetcars ... The substation is one of the two buildings in the district that is itself separately listed in the National Register of Historic Places ...

Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8
... Pacific Electric Railway Company Substation No. 8, also known as the Altadena Substation, is a National Register of Historic Places structure (site #77000295) in Altadena, California ... The traction substation was built in 1905 ...