Amoco Junction, Los Angeles

The tower at Amoco Junction, 1904

Amoco Junction was a junction in the Pacific Electric Railway's Southern District. It was located in Nevin, South Central Los Angeles at 25th Street and Long Beach Avenue. It was named after a nearby American Olive Company (AmOCo) plant. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

It was the junction where the Santa Monica Air Line split off from the Watts, Long Beach, and other Southern District Lines. ^{[5] [6]} It was one of several points at which a tower crossed the quadruple tracks between Downtown Los Angeles and Watts. ^[7] Although Amoco was designated as a junction, many lines did not stop here. It was served only by local railway cars and the Air Line. ^{[8] [ full citation needed ]}

Service was provided to Amoco Junction between 1904 and 1958. A new 40-lever interlocking tower was put into commission on April 25, 1908. ^[9] Though it is located along the route of the Los Angeles Metro A Line, it was not revived for use as a stop or station on it. Neither did it become a station on the Expo Line that replaced the Santa Monica Air Line.

Preceding station	Pacific Electric			Following station
University toward Rustic Canyon		Air Line		Pacific Electric Building Terminus
Adams Boulevard toward Watts		Watts Local		22nd Street toward Pacific Electric Building

References

1. Crise, Steve; Patris, Michael A. (2011). Pacific Electric Railway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 43. ISBN   9780738575865.
2. "Trains At Amoco Junction, ca. 1950". Metro Library and Archive. Los Angeles Metro.
3. "Our Neighbors". Los Angeles Times. June 1, 1930. Retrieved February 10, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
4. Spitzzeri, Paul R. (April 27, 2020). "Take It On Faith From Point A to Point B with a Pacific Electric Railway Pamphlet With A Spiritualism Connection, April 1928". Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum . Retrieved July 26, 2022.
5. Hilton, George W.; Due, John F. (2000) [1960]. The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 412. ISBN   0-8047-4014-3.
6. Caltrans (February 1982). "1981 Inventory of Pacific Electric Routes" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. pp. 84, 108. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
7. Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. pp. 79, 80, 133. ASIN   B0007F8D84. OCLC   6565577.
8. Pacific Electric Railway Guide: Names and locations of stops, cross streets and important points of interest on or Adjacent to Lines of the Pacific Electric Railway. Orange Empire Railway Museum.
9. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : "Interlocking Signal Plants of the Pacific Electric" (PDF). Electric Railway Journal . Vol. XXXII, no. 3. McGraw Publishing Company. June 20, 1908. pp. 125–126. Retrieved August 18, 2025.

34°00′52″N118°14′35″W / 34.014373°N 118.243152°W / 34.014373; -118.243152