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 HillTrain
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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
Bryant & Rincon
View south across Bryant between Sterling and Rincon to the Ondawa Building, built 1920, Earl B. Scott, architect, W.H. Ellison, Engineer. Spur railroad track leading into building from Bryant. Building still stands in 2021. [Spur track into Bldg. - south side Bryant bet. 2nd & Rincon] [dpwbook29 dpw7029]
South Beach
3rd St near Islais Creek
View North from Islais Creek toward Army Street (Cesar Chavez), Shell Oil tank and approaching train on right. [dpwbook30 dpw7180]
Central Waterfront
SF Zoo
"Little Puffer" miniature steam train at what was then Fleishhacker Zoo.
Lakeshore
San Jose near Mt. Vernon
San Jose Avenue near Mt. Vernon. Bridge over Southern Pacific Railroad. The site is now underneath I280 Freeway and BART right of way [San Jose Ave. Bridge looking south, unloading west girders dpwbook36 dpw10200]
Cayuga
San Jose Avenue Bridge
San Jose near Mt. Vernon over the Southern Pacific railroad. Site is now under I280 Freeway and BART right of way. [San Jose Bridge dpwbookBRIDGESII dpw10413]
Cayuga
San Jose near Dolores
View South along Southern Pacific main line, College Hill Reservoir in background. Houses on San Jose between Brook Street and Randall. Steam Locomotive #1717 behind man posing.
Fairmount
SP Train near 30th Street
View South along Southern Pacific Old Main Line, Holly Park in background. Northbound Train #2135 approaching 30th Street. The tracks and berm they ran on were removed in the 1940s and the right-of-way was developed shortly thereafter.
Fairmount
Islais Creek
View west from the 3rd Street Draw Bridge over Islais Creek toward Southern Pacific Railroad trestle with with train passing by. Twin Peaks visible in the distance. Ship in center is the Ajax (Liverpool). Rosenberg Bros. & Co. Rice Mill No. 1 (opened 1918) on Rankin St. at left, Cargill facility at right. Small boat at left is the Capella of Seattle, at right the New Washington. C.E. Grosjean Rice Mill (Evans and Marin, later site of FedEx facility) behind ship.
Central Waterfront
State Belt Railroad
Locomotive #4 of State Belt Railroad outside roundhouse at Embarcadero and Lombard Street.
Northern Waterfront
California & 5th Ave
View north of Ferries & Cliff House train on California St. Towers of Little Sisters of the Poor in distance. [TEH #564 Cliff House Train. May 16, 1905 T. E. Hecht] (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Richmond Inner
Cliff Line Steam Engine
Narrow gauge locomotive #8 of Ferries & Cliff House Railroad, alongside roundhouse on California St between Locust and Laurel. [1905 CH-25 Behrman] (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Presidio Heights
Embarcadero
[WA-3] State Belt Railroad locomotive #6 pulling a load of boxcars along the waterfront [G810 WA-003] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Near Fourth & Townsend
Elevated view northwest across tracks to Southern Pacific Passenger Depot Building with W. W. Cole Circus advance train coach, locomotive and other rail cars. Sign for Potrero & Bay View Railroad Co. in back. Southern Pacific headquarters building in distance. [SP Depot 4th Townsend St 1890(inscription is incorrect, Cole's circus liquidated in November 1886)] [F810 BU-043] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Mission Bay