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Author | : Paul C. Trimble |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738530529 |
The Sacramento Northern Railway was once a critical interurban link between California's northern Central Valley communities, the state capital, and the Bay Area. Running through orchards, farmland, swamps, and cities, this electric railway began its life in 1905. Service eventually ran from Chico to Oakland, but after the Bay Bridge opened in 1939, the 186-mile route started in San Francisco's Financial District, crossed the bridge on the lower deck, ran through Contra Costa County towns like Moraga, Lafayette, and Pittsburg, across the Suisun straits on the massive rail ferry Ramon (which could hold an entire train), and into Sacramento, the halfway point. From there, the train continued through rolling hills and farms on to Marysville, and finally to Chico before making its return journey. The Sacramento Northern soldiered on until World War II, but eventually the growing car culture, along with competing diesel railroads, undid this splendid line. Interurban passenger service ended in 1941, and the various lines were gradually abandoned or dieselized. Today a 22-mile segment of the route remains in operation at the Bay Area Electric Railway Museum in Solano County.
Author | : Ira L. Swett |
Publisher | : Pentrex Media Group |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : United States. Emergency board (Western Pacific railroad co., Sacramento northern railway, and Tidewater southern railway) |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Arthur C. Jenkins |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Canals |
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Author | : Norwood Silsbee |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Sacramento Northern Railway |
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Author | : Railroad Commission of the State of California |
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Total Pages | : 1228 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Public utilities |
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Author | : Thomas H. Irion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : California, Northern |
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Author | : Railroad Commission of the State of California. Transportation Department |
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Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
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Author | : Paul Castelhun Trimble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Fascinating history of the numerous electric street railways (interurbans) that once criss-crossed northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Covers the Interurban Electric Railway (the Big Red Cars), the Key System, the Market Street Railway, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Peninsular Railway, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad, the Sacramento Northern, and the San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway. There is a roster and map for each railroad line. The book also discusses the Bay area ferry lines (with rosters), smaller streetcar lines, and the "what ifs?" represented by BART. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of car builders and ferryboat builders. 199 pages with index.
Author | : De Leuw, Cather & Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Railroad crossings |
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