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Archaic place name in Los Angeles County From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Motordrome is an archaic placename in Los Angeles County, California.[1] It designates a rail spur that existed in the 1910s[2] on the Redondo Beach via Del Rey Line, named for the Los Angeles Motordrome race track and airfield.[3] Motordrome station lay at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m).[1] The coordinates for Motordrome preserved in the GNIS (33°58′07″N 118°26′21″W) place it near the present-day intersections of Jefferson Boulevard and Culver Boulevard, in what is now the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve.
Even though the racetrack was destroyed in a fire in 1913, and the rails were removed by 1918,[2] the place name persisted on USGS survey maps until at least the 1930s.[4]
The Barnes Circus train partially derailed at Motordrome in 1914, injuring four.[5]