Aug 25, 2024 · The City of S.F. began in the mid-1930s as a semi-articulated trainset and operated a fast schedule between the port city and Chicago even though it took three different …

The City of San Francisco was a streamlined through passenger train which ran from 1936 to 1971 on the Overland Route between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California, with a ferry …

The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century.

Sept. 6, 1869 The first train from the eastern U.S. reaches S.F. Bay, running on the Central Pacific Railroad's line through Altamont Pass and Niles Canyon to a terminal in Alameda.

1930s view west from Bernal Heights, elevated railway curving through cityscape in distance. St. Paul's Catholic Church at far right. Mission Street north from 25th Street, with the Southern …

May 25, 2020 · On a quiet Sunday in December of 1992, Bill Cassidy took pictures of the railroad tracks that once guided Southern Pacific trains down Harrison Street from the 1890s to June, …

Nov 6, 2024 · The 49er was an exotic, short-lived streamliner Union Pacific launched in the late 1930s as a secondary train to complement the first-class City Of San Francisco that had …

Jul 24, 2024 · Railroads entered the 1930s with great uncertainty following 1929's stock market crash which caused a nationwide economic collapse. It resulted in major systems like the …

Where the Century survived as a premiere train well into the streamlined era, however, the Overland was eclipsed by the City of San Francisco and became a secondary train even after …

The San Francisco Municipal Railway was established in 1912. Business magnate Francis Marion Smith then created the Key System in 1903 to connect San Francisco with the East Bay.