For years the right-of-way had been leased out by the railroad companies. But that stopped when it was sold to Metro, Gould said. Lawndale long opposed the project, but recently backed a second ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Work crews grind up railroad ties near a business park and neighborhood in North Lawndale. Neighbors complain about the odors and the dust. Tyler Pasciak ...

The little city of Lawndale long since has been subsumed in the seamless carpet of redundant municipalities that rolls south and west from Los Angeles, but in the mind of Jim Osborne the place ...

North Lawndale has lost three quarters of its population ... The Burlington Northern Railroad will always be there, but activists on both sides hope it will become less of a barrier.

The North Lawndale and South Lawndale communities on ... The Burlington Northern Railroad Co. tracks cut a jagged line through the middle of the two communities, serving as a geographic border.

North Lawndale was going through some bad times, and the people south the Burlington railroad wanted to emphasize their separate status. To keep the narration simple, I’m calling this area SLLV.