Monrovia station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of Duarte Road and Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California, after which the station is named. This station opened on March 5, 2016, as part of Phase 2A of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Project.
Monrovia station platform
The Monrovia station in 1884 with a streetcar pulled by a mule on Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California. The Streetcar was sponsored by Cronenweit Jewelers which has a store in Monrovia and Azusa. The mule would pull the rail streetcar up hill to downtown and then be loaded on trailer and coast down to the station
1926 Monrovia train station, immediately east of the Gold Line stop
A Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The A Line is a 48.5-mile (78.1 km) light rail line in Los Angeles County, California. It is one of the six lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). The A Line serves 44 stations and runs east-west between Azusa and Pasadena, then north-south between Pasadena and Long Beach. It interlines and shares five stations with the E Line in Downtown Los Angeles. Service operates for approximately 19 hours with headways of up to 8 minutes during peak hours. The A Line is currently the longest light rail line in the world.
Foothill Freeway overpass east of Sierra Madre Villa station
A southbound A Line train departing Highland Park station
LA Metro Blue Line (now A Line) opening celebration on July 14, 1990
Nippon Sharyo P865 train (now retired) leaving Downtown Long Beach station.
