"The recent change of control of the City and Central street railways and the Boyle Heights railways and the franchise for a cable railway to Messrs. J.F. Crank and Herman Silver, of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, indicate a great and important change in the transportation of passengers to and from transcontinental and local lines of street railways in Los Angeles." "The New Passenger Center," Los Angeles Herald, April 12, 1887, page 1
