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Re: Rummaging around the Rumsey collection - SF 1915
Author: mook
Date: 07-28-2015 - 10:28
Jack R. Wagner: The Last Whistle. 1974, Howell-North Books. ISBN 0-8310-7107-9, LOC card# 74-83756.
There are other sources of information, too, but I have that book. Check your local library to see if one might have it, or have a wide-area search service like Link+.
In SF, it ran mostly along what's now Alemany Blvd. (I-280 between Mission St. and Bayshore), which the 1915 map pretty clearly shows. SP connection was near what's now Cesar Chavez Blvd. (Army St. back then). SF terminal was at 12th & Mission with a connection running along Potrero Ave. to get there. From Daly City, it ran along the sea cliffs, then through Pacifica, @#$%&'s Slide, and the Half Moon Bay area with end of tracks at Tunitas Creek. At the south end, it ran from the bluffs above the Santa Cruz wye to Swanton. Traffic was always barely enough to keep running, typically including lumber, ag products, and beachgoers. Yes, the plans had been to connect all the way through, and even to go electric, but that never happened.
After abandonment and removal, much of it was used by streets or highways (Highway 1 used large chunks of the alignment south of Daly City). The part along the cliffs was, of course always a problem, and the highway continued having them. After the 1957 earthquake (centered just offshore near Mussel Rock), the highway cleanup was so extensive that it was finally moved inland. @#$%&'s Slide of course was fixed (with an inland tunnel) much more recently. Most of the abandoned highway and rail alignments along various sea cliffs have vanished into the ocean, except for the old @#$%&'s Slide road which is now (temporarily, of course - it'll go downhill fast (hee hee)) a trail. Given the routing along the shoreline, it was never going to be a very maintainable line anyway.
There are other sources of information, too, but I have that book. Check your local library to see if one might have it, or have a wide-area search service like Link+.
In SF, it ran mostly along what's now Alemany Blvd. (I-280 between Mission St. and Bayshore), which the 1915 map pretty clearly shows. SP connection was near what's now Cesar Chavez Blvd. (Army St. back then). SF terminal was at 12th & Mission with a connection running along Potrero Ave. to get there. From Daly City, it ran along the sea cliffs, then through Pacifica, @#$%&'s Slide, and the Half Moon Bay area with end of tracks at Tunitas Creek. At the south end, it ran from the bluffs above the Santa Cruz wye to Swanton. Traffic was always barely enough to keep running, typically including lumber, ag products, and beachgoers. Yes, the plans had been to connect all the way through, and even to go electric, but that never happened.
After abandonment and removal, much of it was used by streets or highways (Highway 1 used large chunks of the alignment south of Daly City). The part along the cliffs was, of course always a problem, and the highway continued having them. After the 1957 earthquake (centered just offshore near Mussel Rock), the highway cleanup was so extensive that it was finally moved inland. @#$%&'s Slide of course was fixed (with an inland tunnel) much more recently. Most of the abandoned highway and rail alignments along various sea cliffs have vanished into the ocean, except for the old @#$%&'s Slide road which is now (temporarily, of course - it'll go downhill fast (hee hee)) a trail. Given the routing along the shoreline, it was never going to be a very maintainable line anyway.
