Yesterday I ran across this photo during a scour of Wikimedia. It shows the interior of the Key System mole in 1908 and is from the ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL.
This shows how the interior of the terminal looked in the early days of OA&E?operation, though this view predated their use of the route by several years.
On January 30, 1911, the Key System and the OA&E agreed to allow the latter's trains to run from the junction at 40th & Shafter to the pier. The first test train ran on 11 December 1912, using OA&E?Holman motor 1004 with a Key System crew. Other tests followed. Scheduled operation began on 7 April 1913.
Key System required the OA&E equipment to be fully up to their standards. One such requirement was the use of Brown Roller Pantographs, which the OA&E rented from the Key System. Motors 1001-1006 were initially fitted with these pantographs. Later box motors 101 and 102 (sometimes used on picnic trains), and locomotives 103 and 104, received Brown pantographs. The rest of the OA&E equipment had Westinghouse 121-A pantographs, which were later modified to work on the Key overhead. I do not know when the Brown pantographs were returned to the Key System.
