The station reuses the former Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot , built 1926 in a Spanish colonial revival-style . The 1926 station replaced a wooden depot built on the site in 1886 by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad used till 1972 . Installed in 1887 , a mule-drawn railway , a single passenger car , called the Myrtle Avenue Railroad at that time ran from the Monrovia station up Myrtle Ave to downtown Monrovia . On the way back down to the rail station , the mule was loaded onto a flatcar and downhill gravity took the cars back to the station . By the early the mule 1920s the street car system was removed . In 1906 the Pacific Electric rail car arrived in Monrovia . The PE Pasadena and Monrovia line ended in 1951 . Santa Fe Middle School near the station is named after the Santa Fe Railway . The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad built the first train tracks and station in Monrovia in 1887 . The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was founded in 1883 , by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to San Gabriel Valley from downtown Los Angeles . Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold on May 20 , 1887 into the California Central Railway . In 1889 this was consolidated into Southern California Railway Company . On Jan. 17 , 1906 Southern California Railway was sold to the Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and called the Pasadena Subdivision . Amtrak-Santa Fe ran the Southwest Chief and Desert Wind over this line in Monrovia , but relocated the Desert Wind to the Fullerton Line in 1986 . The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994 , when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia . With the completion of the Goldline in Monrovia the 1926 Monrovia train station is slated to be restored
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Monrovia station