Los Angeles Terminal Railway

Swartout had a large estate between New York Dr. and Boston St. near Maiden Lane which lies in a lower section of Altadena near the Pasadena border.

Frederick had a Ranch house near the Piedmont (Altadena Drive) and John had proposed building a mansion near the homes of McNally and Green.

Green had made his fortunes in patent medicines and elixirs with his company based in Woodbury, New Jersey and was invited by McNally to move to Altadena in the same year.

The original Woodbury plan to have a line run from an Altadena railroad yard to Salt Lake City, Utah, was still in the offing, but the railway's financial difficulties made such an expansion impossible.

However, only one titan was willing to put his money into action, William Andrews Clark, a wealthy Montana mining magnate and banker.

This new "Salt Lake Route" utilized trackage in Utah originally constructed for the UP, and the UP held an equity interest in the new line.

It took decades for the bordering properties to assume the abandoned right-of-way, and to this day slight traces of where the rail line passed through can be sleuthed out.

A fenced-in section can also be seen adjacent to the northbound Lincoln Avenue off ramp of Interstate 210, where the train used to head toward the Las Casitas flats.