The Red Car line ran into Altadena until 1941. At the onset of World War II, the dismantling of the Mount Lowe Railway was contracted to a scrapper who stripped the railway of all salvageable materials. In 1959 the Forestry service began dynamiting the remains of buildings as hazardous nuisances. In 1962 the Incline Powerhouse was dynamited, but the gear mechanism was placed as a monument to the enterprise.