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View north on Battery from Market, ruins of the W. S. Clark Building at center. North Shore Railroad locomotive 'Electra' and debris railroad car, horses and wagons clearing rubble after 1906 earthquake. Piles of reclaimed bricks and man cleaning off mortar. [4247 Debris RR and electric locomotive] (Bernal History Project / Helen Sjornberg 1906 photos)
Financial District
View southwest on old Southern Pacific Railroad main line across Valencia Street. Building at Juri and San Jose Avenue still stands. Valencia Speedsters Auto body (Southern Pacific valuation photo documenting SP properties) [SP's Valencia Street Station about 1920] [177-V]
Mission
Elevated view of Market Street west from Montgomery Street. Tall flagpole with American flag, horse drawn carriages. wooden sidewalks. Steam train in the distance heading southwest. The Market Street Railroad ran only a single track on Market Street between 1860 and 1866, after which it added a second track. James H. Widber's drugstore was on the northeast corner of Market and Kearny from 1861 to 1867. (PF) From Carleton Watkins stereo 578. [Flag pole at Kearny Market year 4 July 1864, Steam Dummy, SS-73 578] Board sidewalks [F810 SS-073] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Downtown / Union Square
House, possibly near beach or in Marin County. Address in lower right side window reads '146.' May be associated with family in wnp14.12225, wnp14.12227-wnp14.12232
Combination automobile and rail engine KisselKar of the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway, with 'Tamalpais Motor No. 3' stenciled on side. Sitting in woods on rail turntable, possibly Lee Street. Used with open passenger gravity cars to transport people in Blithedale Canyon around Mount Tamalpais to Tavern and Muir Woods from 1916-1930.
Combination automobile and rail engine KisselKar of the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway, with 'Tamalpais Motor No. 3' stenciled on side. Sitting in woods on rail turntable, possibly Lee Street, with American flags. Used with open passenger gravity cars to transport people in Blithedale Canyon around Mount Tamalpais to Tavern and Muir Woods from 1916-1930.
Girl sitting in combination automobile and rail engine KisselKar of the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway. 'Tamalpais Motor No. 3,' possibly on Lee Street.
View west to Golden Gate Bridge in distance. Railroad tracks, Yacht harbor.
Marina
Handbill advertising the Park and Ocean Railroad
View west across 3rd Street to Market Street Railway (MSRy) 42-Line streetcar #819 and 15-Line #818 in front of Southern Pacific Passenger Depot. Second story arcade with scaffolding and ladders. [AS]
Mission Bay
Miniature steam train ride with passengers in Peralta Park, Oakland. Peralta Playland (1950 – 1968) was a small amusement park along the channel between Lake Merritt and the estuary next to the Kaiser Convention Center. Locomotive painted in livery (color scheme) of Southern Pacific Daylight. Childrens Fairyland? [Oakland Jul 29, 1956] Train was called the "Oakland Acorn." According to Kathryn Kasch in an article in the Oakland Heritage Alliance News, "the steam engine and five cars were built in 1949 by George Reddington and Robert Blecha in San Leandro and 1,500 feet of narrow gauge track was laid around the bit of exposed estuary channel." 2 The train opened to the public on July 22, 1950. The rail line was called the C. & E. G. R.R. (Carefree and Extra Gladsome Railroad).
Outside SF
Interurban Electric Railway (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Pacific) Red Train on elevated track and bound for Berkeley. Line 5 was the 9th Street line. These trains ran across the Bay Bridge until 1941.
South of Market
Tavern of Tamalpais. East Peak with early lookout in background. The Tavern burned to the ground in a 1923 fire, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1924. The lookout in this photograph was replaced by the CCC in 1935-1936.
Outside SF
Mt Tamalpais Tavern. East Peak in background. The Tavern burned to the ground in a 1923 fire, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1924.
Outside SF
Shay-type railroad locomotive of Mt Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway at Tamalpais Tavern, about to descend into Mill Valley.
Outside SF