Customer Reviews

The Key System: San Francisco and the Eastshore Empire (CA) (Images of Rail)

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This book was everything I hoped it would be. As a railway buff and a fan of the Key System it is a great addition to my library

I'm very impressed with the photos in this book. Some of these seem to be newly discovered. My father rode the Key System Bay Bridge trains during the 1950s as I mentioned in my review for another Key System book.

May 2008 Update: It is fitting that this book was published about one year before last months's 50th anniversary of the end of the Key System's Bay Bridge rail service on Sunday April 20th, 2008 as reported in the April 18th issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. Although I can't think of a more sadder and tragic day to remember than this, volunteers at the Western Railway Museum, located a few miles north of San Francisco, observed it by operating two surviving Key System bridge units.

Since our family once used the Key-System, it was great to read about it, and see all the places it went to.