Excellent overview showing representative steam locomotives on the Southern Pacific (and the Central Pacific) from the General Stanford to the Daylight. The evolution of the engines allows the author to also provide a short but comprehensive history of the railroad. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos, schematic diagrams, and maps. With Central Pacific steam locomotive roster. Decorative end papers show system map in 1893. 88 pages.

Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives

Donald Duke

Golden West Books

Pacific Electric Railway: a Pictorial Album of Electric Railroading

Pacific Railway Journal/ Golden West

Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 by Donald Duke presents a historical and pictorial survey of the electric railways operating around San Francisco Bay from World War II to the present time. Features the Bay Area Rapid Transit, the streetcar operations of the East Bay Transit Co., the Red Trains of Southern Pacific commuter rail operation known as the Interurban Electric Railway, and the transbay services of the Key System. An authoritative and richly illustrated work on an often-ignored subject in the world of electric service, Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 by Donald Duke is a must-have for the historian and fan of Bay Area electric railways.

Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Vol. 1: Bay Area Rapid Transit-East Bay Transit Interurban Electric (Sp)-Key System

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 2 presents a historical and pictorial survey of the electric railways operating around San Francisco Bay from World War II to the present time. Following Volume 1, this edition concludes the story with the Market Street Railway being presented, in addition to the Municipal Railway of San Francisco, the San Francisco, Napa &amp; Calistoga, the Northwestern Pacific, the Petaluma &amp; Santa Rosa, and the southern end of the Sacramento Northern. Not forgotten is the Shipyard Railway built and operated during World War II. For fans of Northern California electric action, Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 2 by Donald Duke is a must-have addition to any respectable library.

Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay, Vol. 2: Market Street Railway-Municipal Railway of San Francisco-Northwestern Pacific Railroad Petaluma & ... Francisco, Napa & Calistoga-Shipyard Railroad

This railroad series chronicles the "World's Largest Interurban Electric Systems," developed by Henry Huntington, throughout Southern California.

Pacific Electric Railway, Vol. 2: Eastern Division

8.5x11, cloth with dust jacket, 296 pages, 579 illustrations, map and timetable reproductions, and bibliography. "West Coast Interurbans (California)" presents a pictorial history of California interurbans, beginning in San Diego and following the coastline up to Los Angeles, where the largest interurban system, the Pacific Electric Railway, operated. The story then moves north to the San Francisco Bay region, where there were numerous carriers, and finally into California's legendary wine country. Railways featured include Central California Traction Company, Glendale and Montrose Railway, Key System, Northern Electric Railway, Northwestern Pacific Railway, Pacific Electric Railway, Peninsular Railway, Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, Sacramento Northern Railway, San Diego Electric Railway, San Diego and Southwestern Railway, San Francisco and San Mateo Railway, San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway, Southern Pacific (Interurban Electric), Tidewater Southern Railway, and the Visalia Electric Railway.

West Coast Interurbans: California

Golden West, San Marino, CA

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