Lawndale, the "Hub of the Centinela Valley", was named by the original real estate agent, named Hopper, which had some connection with the Chicago suburb of the same name. Roy Rogers lived there for a while before becoming a C&W star and L.A. Ram Fred Dryer grew up there.

Monaco (pernounced Mon-nac-o by the crews on the radio) was a siding on the west side of the tracks from Artesia Blvd to 170th St. for a liquor company. In the '60s and '70s,(and probably earlier - but I wasn't around then) the harbor bound trains really stuggled up that hill, and sometines had to double between Lawndale siding and Amaco. The station sign was at the Lomita RR Museum last time I saw it.

The AT&SF got there in the 1920's. Until the 1930's, the PE ran down Hawthorne Blvd from Hawthorne, through Lawndale, to El Nido where it met the line from L.A. via Gardena (which lasted until 1940). It was originally the NG Redondo Rwy Ingelwood Branch. The now gone Belvedre Baptist church at El Nido was the Sub-Station/Depot. Four lines at one time or another time ran between L.A. Redondo!