Abandonment
By 1916 quarrying in the Arroyo had been abandoned since the rock material proved to be too unstable for its intended purposes, and by 1921 the Arroyo-Windsor lines were taken up. Shortly thereafter, there being found no viable use for the railway, the remainder of the original line was abandoned altogether.
Today only a fenced right of way can been seen passing between the buildings and houses between Windsor and El Sol Avenues in Altadena. A fenced-in section can also be seen adjacent the northbound Lincoln Avenue off ramp of Interstate 210, where the train used to head toward the Las Casitas flats.
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