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Newhall Pass links the San Fernando Valley to the Santa Clarita Valley and is a main entry to the Greater Los Angeles area. The pass is known for the massive Newhall Pass interchange and the historic San Fernando Tunnel.
- Lyons Station
- Beale's Cut
- Newhall Pass
- San Fernando Tunnel
In 1853, a Los Angeles businessman, Henry Clay Wiley installed a windlass atop the Fremont Pass to speed and ease the ascent and descent of the steep Santa Clara Divide. He also built a tavern, hotel and stable nearby. In 1854, Wiley sold out to Sanford and Cyrus Lyon and it began to be called Lyons Station. At the same time Phineas Banning obtaine...
The steep pass was made easier to cross with a deep slot-like road cut by Charles H. Brindley, Andrés Pico, and James R. Vineyard, to whom the State of California awarded a twenty-year contract to maintain the turnpike and collect tolls. Thus, the "San Fernando Mountain," the most daunting obstacle along the Fort Tejon Road, the main inland route f...
Newhall Pass is named after businessman Henry Newhall, whose land holdings formed the basis of the city of Santa Clarita. Newhall came to California from Saugus, Massachusetts during the California Gold Rush in 1850. Over time he purchased a number of properties in the state, the most significant being the 46,460-acre (188 km2) Rancho San Francisco...
Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line and the Union Pacific Railroad (formerly Southern Pacific Railroad) go through the pass via the San Fernando Tunnel. The 6,940-foot-long railroad tunnel (2,115.3 m) took a year and a half to complete. Over 1,500 mostly Chinese laborers took part in the tunnel construction, which began at the south end of the mountai...
In researching the story of the Santa Suzanna tunnels, the San Fernando tunnel and Newhall Pass I came across a lo... All satellite views courtesy: Google Maps.
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Newhall Pass links the San Fernando Valley to the Santa Clarita Valley and is a main entry to the Greater Los Angeles area. The pass is known for the massive Newhall Pass interchange and the historic San Fernando Tunnel.
The Newhall Pass interchange (officially Clarence Wayne Dean Memorial Interchange) is a highway interchange at Newhall Pass in Southern California, United States. It is south of the city of Santa Clarita and north of the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Granada Hills and Sylmar.
Vernette Snyder Ripley's 16-part history of the Newhall Pass — once known as the San Fernando Pass (ergo the name, San Fernando Road) — is the authoritative text on this subject and forms the basis for later works by Santa Clarita Valley historians such as A.B. Perkins and Jerry Reynolds.
The Tunnel area was, and is, the location of the the old grade (Cuesta Viejo - also called the San Fernando Pass) on the Old Road (Camino Viejo), Beale's Cut (new San Fernando Pass), and the Newhall tunnel/cut (Newhall Pass).
