Railroad

Contains 623 photos

Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View southeast to Beale Bridge Viaduct at Harrison under construction [dpwbook4 dpw570] Smokestack and water tank of Hobbs, Wall & Co. Box Factory at right. 219-21, 223 Harrison on Rincon Hill at left.

Rincon Hill
Beale & Harrison
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Beale & Harrison

View northwest to Beale Bridge, Harrison St. viaduct construction, using locomotive on temporary tracks and steam shovel. Downtown in distance. [dpwbook4 dpw604]

Rincon Hill
Mission Viaduct
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Mission Viaduct

View northeast from Ocean Shore Railway tracks (future Alemany Boulevard) to Mission Viaduct. [dpwbook4 dpw695]

Mission Terrace
Islais Creek
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Islais Creek

View north across Islais Creek toward Bernal Heights along University Mound aqueduct / pipeline, Ocean Shore Railroad Trestle crossing above it. The barn in the distance was in the southern-most corner of today's Alemany Farmer's Market. I280 Freeway and Alemany Boulevard cross this view today. [dpwbook6 dpw1567]

Bernal Heights
Sansome near Lombard
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Sansome near Lombard

Sansome below Telegraph Hill [dpwbook10 dpw2099] Panorama with dpw2098. Albers Bros. Milling Co. Western Pacific Railway freight office.

Northern Waterfront
Telegraph Hill
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Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Hill Gray Bros. Quarry [dpwbook10 dpw2101] Northeast face of Telegraph Hill, approximately Lombard & Montgomery

Telegraph Hill
Bernal Cut
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Bernal Cut

Bernal Cut Path (San Jose Avenue) near Fairmount. Bernal Cut Look S 150 feet S of Fairmount. Fairmount pedestrian bridge and Charles Street bridge beyond it. [dpwbook11 dpw2305]

Holly Park
Bernal Cut
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Bernal Cut

View South of Bernal Cut Path (San Jose Avenue) from Charles Street Bridge. Richland Bridge is visible. Bernal Cut Look S from Charles [dpwbook11 dpw2306]

Holly Park
Bernal Cut
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Bernal Cut

Bernal Cut Path (San Jose) from Richland [Bernal Cut S from Richland dpwbook11 dpw2307]

Fairmount
Islais Creek Bridge
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Islais Creek Bridge

View north from about Quint and Custer. Islais Creek bridge, smoking train [dpwbook12 dpw2507] Lift Bridge

Central Waterfront
Islais Creek Bridge
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Islais Creek Bridge

View west to Islais Creek Channel fill near Kentucky (sinking ground). Southern Pacific trestle, Bernal Heights in background. [dpwbook12 dpw2511]

Central Waterfront
Davis near Broadway
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Davis near Broadway

View south on Davis near Broadway. Belt Line railyard boxcars on left, 6 story J.H. Newbauer wholesale grocer on Southeast corner of Davis and Pacific, which in 1921 became a Planters Peanut factory. Plank sidewalk. Albers sign in background. [Davis S from Broadway dpwbook14 dpw2756]

Northern Waterfront
Carolina near 20th
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Carolina near 20th

View north on unpaved Carolina Street toward 20th Street. 770 Carolina at left. Western Pacific Railroad train with boxcars in the distance at the intersection of Carolina and Mariposa next to Jackson Playground at right. Jackson Playground Clubhouse in its original location. (built 1912?) De Haro Street incinerator at lower left. (demolished 1933) [dpwbook14 dpw2851]

Potrero Hill
Islais Creek
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Islais Creek

View north from Islais Creek mudflats. Southern Pacific Viaduct at right, Potrero Hill in the background [dpwbook15 dpw2931]

Central Waterfront
Islais Creek
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Islais Creek

View South across Islais Creek mud flats, Southern Pacific Viaduct at left. Railroad tracks for bay fill.[dpwbook15 dpw2932]

Central Waterfront