Railroad

Contains 623 photos

Mariposa & Carolina
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Mariposa & Carolina

View Southeast, Western Pacific Railway Tracks cross the intersection of Mariposa and Carolina. Houses facing Arkansas street in background, wall of Jackson Playground at left. [dpwbook19 dpw4431]

Potrero Hill
View from Visitacion Point
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View from Visitacion Point

Brisbane, View north to Bayview Hill and Candlestick Point (The first hill at center was flattened for bay fill). Southern Pacific Bayshore yards site. Trestle going across inlet as part of Bayshore cut-off.

Outside SF
Oakland Pier
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Oakland Pier

View east from top of Southern Pacific Railroad Depot at Oakland Mole; tracks, rail cars, control tower. [B 1723 View of Oakland and Pier from Top S. P. R. R. Co. Depot]

Valley near Dolores
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Valley near Dolores

1906 Earthquake and Fire, [Our kitchen on Valley St after the Earthquake April 18th 1906] View west on Valley to men, women and children posing with street kitchen stove. Sign says 'New San Francisco Hotel. Fire proof.' Trestle for Southern Pacific railroad and St. Paul's church in background.

Noe Valley
Front near Green
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Front near Green

Elevated view northwest to railcars lined up with fine automobiles and group of men posed with them, perhaps just unloaded? Henry Cowell Lime & Cement (Front & Union) and Sperry Flour warehouses behind.

Northern Waterfront
3rd & King
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3rd & King

Locomotive #2458 alongside automobile. Engine was a Southern Pacific 'Pacific' Class P-6 locomotive, with 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. Six engines of this class were built for SP in 1913.

Mission Bay
Noe Valley View
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Noe Valley View

Panorama above 27th Street part 2, toward Bernal Heights. View Southeast from undeveloped hill near the present site of Cesar Chavez west of Noe toward Holly Park. St Paul's Church. Houses at lower right are at Noe and 27th Streets. SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific) Trestle at Dolores and 27th at center left.

Noe Valley
Visitacion Valley
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Visitacion Valley

[Visitacion Valley] View West from Bayview Hill. Rail yard, Hotel Sunset, orchard, San Bruno Mountain.

Little Hollywood
Bayshore Yard
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Bayshore Yard

[Visitacion Valley] Bayshore rail yard, San Bruno Mountain.

Little Hollywood
Bayshore Yard
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Bayshore Yard

[Visitacion Valley] Bayshore rail yard, San Bruno Mountain, bay shoreline up against railroad tracks. Possible panorama with wnp26.1327 & wnp26.1328.

Little Hollywood
Bayshore Yard
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Bayshore Yard

[Visitacion Valley] Bayshore rail yard, San Bruno Mountain. Duplicate of wnp26.1328.

Little Hollywood
Bayshore near Visitacion
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Bayshore near Visitacion

Elevated View west between Sunnydale and Visitacion toward McLaren Park. Visitacion Valley School in the middle right. Homes along Peabody Street extant in 2018. Roadhouse (6 Mile House?) with stable shed along old San Bruno Road. Temporary shanty houses, possibly made of old railcars, in foreground. [Visitacion Valley]

Visitacion Valley
Berkeley
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Berkeley

Addison near Shattuck, view east on Addison. Across the Southern Pacific tracks is the Studio Building (1905) at 2045 Shattuck in background at left, with Mason-McDuffie Co. on ground floor. The building is a City of Berkeley Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places. At right is the Francis K. Shattuck building at 2100 Shattuck (1901, architects Louis S. Stone and Henry C. Smith, 1901). Horses and carts line street.

Outside SF
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

Railroad cars and rails stacked up, industrial area with telephone poles. East side of Potrero Hill?

Mission Viaduct
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Mission Viaduct

View west from the Mission Viaduct, Mission near Trumbull, men working on telephone wires. Future Mission Terrace and Southern Pacific Railroad in the background. [018] (Pacific Telephone Inventory)

Mission Terrace