PROFESSOR THADDEUS LOWE
MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY
Echo Mountain Powerhouse
Echo Mountain Powerhouse in the 1920s (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library)
Echo Mountain Powerhouse in the 1930s looking west (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library)
Echo Mountain Powerhouse in the 1930s looking south (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library)
Cable winding machinery inside Powerhouse (courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library)
Refurbished cable winding machinery inside 1907 Powerhouse (courtesy of Huntington Library)
Gears today on Echo Mountain (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library)
The wooden Incline Control House and all other buildings were destroyed in a windstorm and fire on December 9, 1905. Temporary service was restored to Echo Mountain from the Altadena Power Plant on January 3, 1906. A new concrete control house was constructed on the site of the old wooden structure. Construction on the new building started in the fall of 1906, and was completed in 1907. Mt. Lowe Power, pages 15, 19.