Eric Tooley on June 28, 2011, at 08:58AM – #1

Very sad, such a waste of a good tunnel to fill it in with dirt in the middle. Part of this tunnel could be used for the Yellow line ( a planned rail line from downtown to Glendale on the back burner), now it has to be re-built. Sigh.

Bob Zwolinski on June 28, 2011, at 11:24AM – #2

Friends and family told me that the train took only 90 seconds to get from 1st and Glendale to the Subway Terminal station. The day after it closed, it took buses up to 25 minutes in morning rush hour to get from 1st and Glendale to 4th and Hill. Progress! What were they thinking?

Matthew McKelligon on June 28, 2011, at 03:35PM – #3

I am dying to explore that abandoned subway terminal. Are there any pictures of it anywhere online? It seems like something an urban explorers group would have already visited multiple times by now.

on June 28, 2011, at 05:04PM – #4

Yeah man, I remember the Belmont Tunnel from watching the original V mini-series...and John Carpenter's They Live

on June 28, 2011, at 07:51PM – #5

Matthew, try this site on the Internet Archive. I was on that tour c. 2000, and you see one of my photos on the second page. Quite an experience, especially after the bend where you couldn't see daylight any more.

http://web.archive.org/web//http://westworld.com/~elson/larail/PE/tunnel.html

on July 01, 2011, at 07:36AM – #6

It's so sad LA traded a good rail system for more cars which was the plan from companies like GM, the oil companies and tire manufacturers thinking it's the way of the future. It's become a nightmare with all the traffic. What this interesting documentary called Taken for a ride about the demise of the rail system in LA. http://www.documentary-film.net/search/watch.php?&ref=158

on July 10, 2011, at 01:00PM – #7

The portion of the tunnel still intact under Olive (from Metro 417) is really cool and would be an amazing dance club or something like that. Currently the air in there is so stagnant that you almost can't breathe. It's really weird.

Thomas K Nagano on July 20, 2011, at 11:14AM – #8

A Japanese friend of mine, Tatsuno-san, thought the tunnel would make a good urban mushroom farm.

After working as as the "fried rice" chef at the Watergrill. He enrolled at UC Davis to learn all about mushrooms.

Lost touch with Tatsuno-san but a creative idea that still might work.

• TK

BobbyD on July 23, 2011, at 05:33PM – #9

Environmental people were threatening to make them to upgrade the tunnel to be safe for traffic again(really a extortion attempt because they stated a buy-out price). They are the wasters, and bullies. In the late 1950s I seeded much of the land over the tunnel to try to help stabilize the hill. The Sierra Club sent me a Desist Order to try to stop me from trying to do anything to the hill. I ignored them- safety was my concern not their excuse to raise donations. I out-foxed or ignored the Sierra Club at least a hundred times.