Cahuenga Pass: Then and Now

The next shot is taken looking north from the Mulholland Drive bridge. An inbound train has just crested the top of the pass. The little brick shelter for the “Mulholland Highway” stop was built in the ‘40s by the state of California. A grade separated right of way in the middle of the freeway might seem like rapid transit but in fact outbound PE trains crawled up the steep 7.6 percent grade. Real rapid transit would have required a tunnel under the pass…as in fact was done with the L.A. subway line built in the '90s.