<b>Photos:</b> Riding the Blue Line
Marcia Baker, 21, gives her boyfriend, Ramon Diaz, 20, a kiss while riding the Metro Blue Line. L.A. County’s oldest light-rail line runs 22 miles from Long Beach to Los Angeles.
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The Blue Line rumbles through a section of the county thats on nobodys star map. Through unglamorous neighborhoods of industry. Past rail yards, scrap yards and the dirt yards of sun-baked homes in Compton, Watts and South-Central.
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Culinary student Octavio Acosta plays his guitar while fellow culinary student Christopher Turner, 20, right, checks messages on his BlackBerry while riding home on the Blue Line.
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Commuters wait to board the Metro Blue Line train at the Grand station. The trains are filled with people selling water, candy and peanuts. They work the train front to back before letting it sail off like a ship leaving port; then they grab one going the opposite way.
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Long Beach-bound commuters pile onto a train.
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Vietnam veteran Michael Estelle, 56, left, tries to prevent a fellow commuter from falling on his lap.
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A commuter who identified himself as Dwayne exits a train car pushing two baby strollers filled with recyclables.
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Commuters step off a train. The line is a rolling improvisational theater where a cast of thousands acts out a daily drama that is by turns poignant, sad, hysterical and inexplicable.
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Commuters strike a series of poses while waiting for a Metro Blue Line train to show up at the Imperial/Wilmington stop in Wilmington.
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