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| mGeographic Locations | |||||
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See also: Maps and Timetables Sections San Francisco Peninsula Monterey Branch (part of Del Monte series) Niles Tower & Environs; two pages Roseville Yard & RH, 1910 photo Donner Pass SP Northwest (N.CA & OR)
Ogden,1969 (part of Mail & Express series) Carrizozo Sub Santa Rosa, N.M. (part of the above) |
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San Jose Area Maps
1960's, 70's SPINS ( Southern Pacific Industrial Numbering System) Book maps 1940's, 50's Coast Division "Clear Standing Room" Yard Maps 1907 Coast Line & "Missions of California" from April public tt. 1908 Central, Northern California, from November public tt. 1913 color San Francisco Bay Map at cprr.org; COOL! 1915 California Board of Trade 1956 San Francisco USGS Topo Map Sanborn Company maps
Niles Tower & Vicinity, 1970; main tracks; a Wx4 original! Southern California, AZ, NM , 1915(?); see page 9 of Public Local Timetables pdf |
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May, 1884 Public February, 1889 Public
June, 1891 Public April, 1907 Public
November, 1908 Public September, 1910 Local and Suburban May 6, 1928, Coast Division #129, employee Shasta Route Public Timetables - printable PDF's
August, 1940 Public October 19, 1947 Peninsula Commute, Public April 25, 1952 Coast Division #161, employee January 6, 1964 Public May 12, 1968 Peninsula Commute, Public October 29, 1978 Western Division #12, employee Southern California, AZ, NM Public Local Timetables, 1915(?) pdf (16pages) |
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| mTrain Orders, DTC & Movement of Trains | |||||
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Steam's Last Summer at Niles Tower Last SP Standard Gauge Steam Revenue Freight Train Note: a more extensive index of the following can be found HERE. A Circular of the Times I: The passing of the 40 ft. boxcar |
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| mEmployees & Their Professional Concerns (See also: War Stories, below) | |||||
| San Jose Engineer & Firemen Assignments, 11/14/1979
SP Freight Jobs Explained: Pool vs. Local vs. Road Switcher Earl Hanson and His SP Ditcher Gang, Circa 1916 -1936 Railroading Without Merit(s): A look at "brownies" WHAT CAUSES RAILWAY ACCIDENTS: "Executive Office" anti-union claptrap from 1905; PDF |
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| mSP (& some Amtrak) War Stories | |||||
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E.O. a 'Bo? Oh No! a nostalgic, but uncomfortable, last trip to Ashland Braking in a Topsy-Turvey World The Most Absolute of Absolute Signals Close Call at College Park Yard How I Came to Embrace Direct Traffic Control How to Get By A Red Automatic Interlocking Signal Using Rule 663bs A Puzzling Day at Bayshore, featuring totally unreliable info from a switchman |
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(see also: Geographic Locations, Above) E9A #6051 at Dunsmuir, 1990's, North Bank Fred photo Krauts & Alcohaulics 4449 and the Freedom Train Locomotive Ratings Alien Visitors to San Jose |
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| mPassenger Trains & Equipment | |||||
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Mail & Express Coast Daylight Gallery Del Monte |
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Market Street Cable Railway / Park and Ocean Railroad (1889 SP timetable) Santa Clara & San Jose Electric Ry., 1904 Sunset Magazine Ad SP Morgan Hill 1901 "Colonist" tickets promotion 1937 Coast Daylight, Saturday Evening Post, color 1944 Coast Daylight from the Saturday Evening Post, a color beauty! |
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Southern Pacific, Caltrans & Caltrain |
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| mSelected Readings About SP in the San Francisco Bay Area | |||||
| Southern Pacific's Coast Line (1994), Southern Pacific's Coast Line Pictorial (1999) and Southern Pacific's Western Division (2003), by dedicated SP historian and man-of-many-talents John R. Signor (Signature Press, pub.); much info on Wx4 is gleaned from his writings. All are in print. | |||||
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Southern Pacific Bay Area Steam, by Harre W. Demorrow (Chatham Publishing, 1979, Prune Country Railroading, by ex WP Engineer Norman W. Holmes (Shade Tree Books, 1985, out of Tracks, Tires and Wires, by Charles S. McCaleb (Inreurban Press, 1981, out of print); a thorough When Steam Ran in the Streets of San Francisco, by Walter Rice & Emiliano Echeverria Peninsula Service, by Fred A. Stindt (The Wesstern Railroader, Issue No. 213, July 1957; |
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