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Southern Pacific Yard
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Southern Pacific Yard

Federal Trucks, from William L. Hughson Ford Dealer, unloading Southern Pacific Boxcars

24th & San Bruno
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24th & San Bruno

Elevated view north to power pole near southeast corner of 24th Street and San Bruno Avenue. Residences across 24th Street still stand (2020). William Shaffer Accident Case. Shaffer sued San Francisco Gas & Electric, United Railroads and Pacific State Telephone and Telegraph on December 22, 1904, claiming that the companies maintained uninsulated guy wires on a pole at 24th and San Bruno, which shocked him and caused him to fall to the street. United Railroads [U00630]

Potrero Hill
24th & Utah
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24th & Utah

National Ice Company Case accident report 5935. Detail shot of United Railroads Car 1717. [U01871]

Potrero Hill
23rd near San Bruno
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23rd near San Bruno

23rd Street between San Bruno Avenue and Utah. Back View United Railroads car house [photographed for Scott] [U01947]

Potrero Hill
San Bruno near 24th
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San Bruno near 24th

View north on San Bruno Avenue between 23rd and 24th Street. Side view of the United Railroads car house. [U01949]

Potrero Hill
Alameda near Bryant
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Alameda near Bryant

View south toward Alameda Street between Bryant and Hampshire. Oil tank at United Railroads Bryant Street Powerhouse; envelope notes that a horse fell into the pit. [U02122]

Mission
Alameda near Bryant
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Alameda near Bryant

View north from Alameda Street between Bryant and Hampshire. Oil tank at United Railroads Bryant Street Powerhouse; envelope notes that a horse fell into the pit. [U02123]

Mission
Valencia & Market
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Valencia & Market

Interior of bitumen (asphalt) plant on Valencia at Market [Photographed for Champerlin] [U02242]

South of Market
Beach & Laguna
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Beach & Laguna

North Beach Powerhouse, workers in a turbine pit. [U02806] (Present site of Marina Safeway)

Marina
Pacific near Divisadero
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Pacific near Divisadero

Two men near hole caused by a gas explosion at the terminus of the United Railroads Pacific Avenue cable car line. No one was injured, but 150 feet of roadway was torn up and a fire, reportedly started by gas in the cable channel ignited by friction, ensued. [United Railroads U02838]

Pacific Heights
Coleridge near Virginia
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Coleridge near Virginia

Construction on the back side of the United Railroads 29th Street car house. (demolished) The view looks north toward a residence on the west side of Coleridge (also demolished) United Railroads [U03988]

Bernal Heights
Broadway near Drumm
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Broadway near Drumm

View south on the lot bounded by Broadway, Pacific, Drumm, & Davis. Men inspecting the wreck of Southern Pacific freight car 39891 M. Gorman Accident. Piedmont and Napolitan Paste at Pacific and Drumm in the background. United Railroads - [A.R. (accident report) 5470] [U03289]

Northern Waterfront
San Mateo
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San Mateo

San Mateo Drive, then called Griffith Avenue, and St. Matthews Avenue in San Mateo. United Railroads [U04511]

Outside SF
Church & 18th
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Church & 18th

United Railroads construction site on Church & 18th Streets, 10:04 AM. Construction of Muni J Church line track. [U05286]

Mission Dolores
Richmond, CA
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Richmond, CA

Visitors from San Francisco disembark from streetcars to see the Emeric Subdivision in Richmond, California. The 'excursion' was advertised in the San Francisco Call by J.W. Wright & Co. on 28 March 1908.

Outside SF