Contains 116 photos
Elevated view west across Montgomery to Globe Mills (built 1904, damaged and rebuilt 1906) - A1 Flour, George W. Pennington and Sons, National Paper Products Co. factory and Zellerbach Paper. Co. warehouse (1917). Portion of Globe Mills complex and National Paper Products building still stand. Telegraph Hill in background left.
Telegraph Hill
View north, 'Little Puffer' Steam Train, Engineer Peter Neilsen at the controls. (Area at right would later be developed as Fleishhacker Zoo.)
Lakeshore
Aquatic Park Casino (Maritime Museum). Steam locomotive J.W. Bowker from Virginia & Truckee Railroad displayed in front of Museum. (The first piece in a proposed railroad museum.) Haslett Warehouse in distance.
Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
SF & San Jose RR trestle (Southern Pacific Old Main Line) crossing at an angle at the corner of 27th and Dolores. No traces of the bridge remain, it was removed in the 1940s and the railroad right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter. View east on 27th.
Noe Valley
View northeast on the SF & San Jose Railroad Trestle (Southern Pacific Old Main Line) across the intersection of 27th Street and Dolores. No traces of the bridge remain, it was removed in the 1940s and the railroad right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter. Photographer Mr. Manning on trestle tracks.
Noe Valley
View northwest toward SF & San Jose (Southern Pacific Old Main Line) bridge crossing the intersection of 27th and Dolores. No traces of the bridge remain, it was removed in the 1940s and the railroad right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter.
Noe Valley
View of south end of Southern Pacific's Bayshore yards near Brisbane with train Southern Pacific Street Engine #4368.
Outside SF
Crowd of people posing alongside train with Shay-type locomotive. East Peak in background. (Based on the women's clothing, this photo likely dates to between 1916 and 1918.)
Market Street Railway 40-line #1231 next to Southern Pacific train. Possibly San Mateo Avenue at Huntington Avenue in San Bruno at San Bruno train station.
View north from center of 8th Street to old City Hall, Pioneer (James Lick) Monument in Marshall Square, Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy) cable car, and bicyclist.
South of Market
Auto ad photo, posed with engine #4 from Belt Line outside roundhouse on Embarcadero
Northern Waterfront
View north at the Southern Pacific Bayshore Railroad Station at Tunnel Avenue. The south end of SP Tunnel Number 4 in the background, Bayview Hill in the distance at right. [S.P. South End Tunnel 4-Line - Bayshore Station]
Little Hollywood
Taken from Oakdale Bridge [SP Engine #2409 - Track 172]
Bayview
View north at the Southern Pacific tracks between Salinas and Paul Avenue, train approaching. Mt. St. Joseph and Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in the background. [S.P. Engine 2443 - T.R. 131 - North End Tunnel 4-Line]
Bret Harte
View north toward Mt. St. Joseph and Orphanage. Approaching Southern Pacific engine 2401 southbound. Tunnel number 3 in the background. Williams Avenue Bridge at center. [S.P. Engine 2401 Tr. 170 - South End Tunnel 3]
Bayview