Follows the SP as it serves the San Francisco area. Detailed photos and descriptions include commuter trains, streamliners, heavy freights, and electric interurban trains working hard in the hills and communities by the Bay.
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This review is from: Southern Pacific in the Bay Area: The San Francisco-Sacramento-Stockton Triangle (Golden Years of Railroading) (Paperback)
The book focuses on "transition-era" (1945 - 1955: the transition from steam to diesel power) operations in one of the most interesting places for railroading: Southern Pacific's own home region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The archives are opened to deliver photographs of many interesting railroad sights now long-gone: the Oakland pier; Third St. station in San Francisco; electric street cars in Berkeley; Port Costa; etc. In this book the pictures do the talking, with minimal additional text to provide background, context and explanation. All photographs are black and white and mostly cover the SP's steam power used extensively at this time; all are of high quality and provide great insight into the realities and details of railroading during the period. The pictures also document an intriguing history of the Bay Area from a different perspective. (The pictures date from 1937 through 1957, with most in the 1945 to 1955 period.) References are provided to other publications to fill in some of the gaps not covered in this book.
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Until the merger era that began with the creation of the Burlington Northern, Southern Pacific was one of the largest railroads in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Southern Pacific, San Jose, Oakland Pier, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Central Pacific, Fred Matthews, Western Pacific, Bay Bridge, Richard Steinheimer, San Rafael, Altamont Pass, East Bay, Union Pacific, Key System, Los Gatos, San Joaquin Valley, Coast Daylight, Marin County, New Orleans, San Joaquin Daylight, Third Street Station, Bay Area, California Zephyr New!
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Until the merger era that began with the creation of the Burlington Northern, Southern Pacific was one of the largest railroads in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Southern Pacific, San Jose, Oakland Pier, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Central Pacific, Fred Matthews, Western Pacific, Bay Bridge, Richard Steinheimer, San Rafael, Altamont Pass, East Bay, Union Pacific, Key System, Los Gatos, San Joaquin Valley, Coast Daylight, Marin County, New Orleans, San Joaquin Daylight, Third Street Station, Bay Area, California Zephyr New!
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- San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History by John Haskell Kemble in Front Matter
- Milwaukee Road in Its Hometown: In and Around the City of Milwaukee (Golden Years of Railroading) by Jim Scribbins in Back Matter
- The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: 160 Lines Abandoned or Merged Since 1930 by George H. Drury on page 405
- Great Northern Railway in the Pacific Northwest (Classic Trains) by Jeff Wilson in Back Matter
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