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Southern Pacific Index
Above: Sour grapes, not wine grapes, over SP's long-promised,but yet unfulfilled new depot: San Jose parade float, early 1930's. - Courtesy Ken Middlebrook, History San Jose |
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The Ernie Kiesel Collection of Southern Pacific Photographs at Histoty San Jose
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New Almaden, California SP/SPC Yard Click on map for 3000 pixel wide image Even collectively, the Southern Pacific New Almaden Branch and the South Pacific Coast narrow gauge Almaden Branch did not amount to much despite very occasional mini booms following their simultaneous construction in 1886. A few months after the SPC branch went standard gauge in September, 1907, business was so scant that daily mixed train service was reduced to weekly and combined with the already once a week mixed train on the SP side. This map shows the gradual reductions of infrastructure that occurred between 1907 and abandonment in 1934. Narrow gauge passenger trains forsook the SPC depot at Harry road (see upper left) no later than 1887, so the presumption is that most or all of the depicted tracks between the junction and SP end of track at Mckeen Road were dual gauge. drawing: Wx4 Staff |