69028 look N on Mission in SF, with a bit of SP on the right
69399 look NE at SP hospital (?) at E end of Panhandle in SF
69369 at bottom, SF Dolores St bridge, plus a carbarn
69010 flock of freight cars on the Belt
69322 look NW from Islais Creek
69056 Belt just E of Ft Mason, looking SW
Below are all San Francisco, little or no rail:
69113 good look SE from Nob Hill — 1924 or earlier
69375 look E at Union Square — 140 New Montgomery under construction
69336 look SE from Van Ness-Pacific 1927
69380, 69433 look SE from Ft Mason
69338 look E along Lombard from Gough 1927
69339, 69340 look SE from W of Russian Hill 1927
69341 better look SE at Nob Hill
69434 look SE at Nob Hill — 140 New Montgomery under constr
69435 look E on Sutter from Taylor — ditto above
69436 look E on California from Jones — ditto above
69344, 69391 good look N up Leavenworth from Market 1927
69381 good look N up Stockton from Market
69383 good look N up Mason from S of Market
69390 good look N up Taylor from Market 1927
69392 good look NE from Taylor-Ellis says 1927, but Russ Bldg still under constr?
xxxIs that right?
69394 look ENE from Geary-Hyde — ditto above
69395 look E from Geary-Franklin — ditto above
69396 great closeup looking N up Montgomery from S of Market — ditto above
69397 look E on Pine from E of Van Ness — ditto above
69024 good look SE from Van Ness - Bay — ditto above
69019 good look E on Geary from Van Ness
69401 look SE from Clay-Franklin
69393 look WNW at 5th-Market
69384 look NE up Market from Leavenworth
69006 good look NE up Mission from 7th
69385 good look NW from Howard-2nd
69389 look WNW from Howard-Fremont 1927
69376 look N from 2nd-Bryant
69296 looking NE from Howard-12th
69026 good look ESE from Sacramento-Webster
69027 good look ENE from Alta Plaza
69059 look NNW from Market St, Sanchez at right edge of pic
69386 good look SW — foreground church was Capp at 21st
69020 good look NW past 16th -Mission
69021 good look NW — churchspire at 21st-Capp near left end bottom edge of pic
68998 look NE up Howard
68999 look ENE, City Hall at center, no Russ Bldg
69001 look E on Post from Van Ness
68982 look E from now-gone St Mary's at Eddy-Gough
69009 good look ESE from Filbert-Pierce
69017 good look ESE — Lafayette Park at center
69104 look SE from Union-Van Ness
69116 backwards scan look SE? Hyde St pier?
69117 frontwards Hyde St pier look ESE
• 68372 I do believe that's NWP down there just north of its tunnel north of San Rafael. Looking east at Hwy 101 construction.
• 68401 The foreground Hwy 101 bridge is at 37.8797N 122.52325W, and that must be Manzanita station out there
• 68402 Pine station near the left edge of the pic?
• 68326 Bad focus --must be Antioch?
• 68206 Looking S at SP, it seems. The old topo map shows three tanks this side of the highway crossing at 37.8965N 121.86484W.
• 68189 First guess: looking S at Byron with SP across the pic.
• 68332 Oakley? What are all those little houses near the left edge? Mothball fleet in the river?
• 68232 Oakley again
• 68230 Passenger train has just headed west out of Brentwood?
• 68223, 68224, 68229 More Brentwood? 68231 has a closer look at that odd white complex at the N edge of town, which doesn't match the topos.
•
• 68994 etc good look at Bay end of 4th St — 140 New Montgomery under constr
• 68997, 69326, 69327 Transit at left edge of the pic, with cars
• 69429 looking E there, different day
• 69430, 69431, 69432, 69328 looking N, higher
• 69211 look SW
• 69214 good closeup look NE
• 69063 16th St area, showing 3rd/16th overpasses
• 69345 good look S at S end Embarcadero
• 69224 Closeup S end Tunnel 4
• 69418 Same area after Bayshore Hwy built
• 69419 Look NE, Tunnel 3 to Tunnel 4
• 67907 Could we be looking NE at 3rd St in SF, south of Islais Creek?
• 67910 Looking ESE — at center, the Williams Ave bridge over SP just S of Tunnel 3
• 69629 Must be San Mateo. Bayshore Hwy ends just south of the road to the bridge.
• 69630 Burlingame
• 68016 SFe? floatbridge Alameda
• 67753 Del Monte logo on that Alameda building?
• 67997 Alameda wye
• 68025 Alameda and WP piers
• 68027 Good look at Alameda side of the Webster-Harrison bridges
• 67998 Wow! Too bad not that sharp. Big SANTA FE sign
• 68006 Another knockout, looking N past the Key shops. Passenger train has clear signal. Guess that overpass must be for autos.
• 68008 Government Island closeup
• 68011 good look N at Alameda and Oakland W of 23rd Ave
• 68013 wonderful look NE from SP roundhouse — best look yet at tracks there to 16th St
• 68129 Three-way switch at Howard Terminal
• 69693 Look E at Key shops (and SP above Key) — another pic showing California Packing
• 67891, 67892, 67893, 67894, 68028 etc More California Packing, across SP from Howard Terminal
• 68002 Whose ferryboat would that be? 17th Ave in Oakland is pointed at it.
• 68003 good closeup of Oakland downtown N of 7th St
•
• 69277 Look NE from Market-Grant in SF — Shell Bldg (100 Bush) under constr
• 69278 Look NE up Market from 6th
• 69279 little bit of SP on the right
• 69281 look NE up Market from Van Ness
• 69282, 69283, 69284 look SE at Nob Hill — Shell Bldg being finished
• 69285 Look ENE at Union Square
• 69287 Look E down Bush
• 69351 Could it be looking south at Twin Peaks?
•
• 69046 This one baffled me until I noticed the Twin Peaks Tunnel.
•
• 68688, 68691, 68692, 68693 Sacramento waterfront
•
• 69640 Doesn't say the town is Winters, and I haven't found that roadblock courthouse in Winters.
•
• 67808, 67809, 67812, 67813, 67815 etc says Cannery Row, so Monterey?
• 67811 Pacific Grove at the R edge?
•
• 67846 says Capistrano Beach — look right?
68373, 68374 Hwy 101 climbing away from NWP at Alto — NWP curve is 37.9043N 122.5263
69215 look NW at Mission Bay; more at 69221
69379 look NE at S end Embarcadero. A battleship out there?
(see SFPL pic https://digitalsf.org/record/24576?v=uv#?xywh=-780%2C-77%2C4586%2C2603 )
69222 closeup Tennessee St
69220 "Cina Basin Looking West" - higher look W at Potrero wye; see image at page top
69421 look N west of Twin Peaks Tunnel
68172 look N at Crockett before bridge construction started
69515 looking E at SFe over SP N of Richmond
69517 out-of-focus look at SFe Richmond
69509 closeup SP Richmond station looking N
69513 look NE from SFe Richmond station
68763 etc Ford plant Richmond looks new
69719 Why all this activity on Brooks Island?
68334 still two tracks in the SFe tunnel
68336 look E at Martinez
68757 murky look W at Martinez before the bridge
68173 looking NW E of Martinez; road bend left of center is 38.0124N 122.10635W
68331 trying to make this Pittsburg — haven't succeeded.
68747 Antioch?
69518 look E at SFe Maltby, SP over SFe S of Avon. What's that empty thru truss?
69520 look E at SN over SFe and SP W of Port Chicago
68769 look ESE at SP south of Lake Merritt
68965 good look NE from Mission-Duboce; says 1923
69030 good look ESE from Ellis Webster
69038 good look WNW from 5th-Folsom
69273 City Hall looking SW
69357 look NE from Market-VanNess
69358 look ENE from City Hall
69420 look SE from City Hall
69197 says-1922 look ENE from City Hall (225 Bush under constr)
69196 good look E from City Hall — says 1923
69051 good look N from Mission-12th. Is that a circus or something, under tents? (Not there in 69198)
69231 Look NE from Market-Valencia
69199 good look N from Mission-14th
69033 look WNW from Market-8th
69035 look E from Golden Gate - Buchanan
69036 look N up Van Ness from Mission
68978 good look at Claremont Hotel and east of it
68771 looking E at Alameda E of High St — has the street parallel to the shore since been moved farther from the shore?
68644, 68642 Rio Vista before the bridge there — some flooding
I got the wrong link in one of the Trainorders posts — the view N up Berkeley 9th St from Oakland 63rd St is
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/69151
68350 NWP SE from San Rafael
68375 NWP Alto — curve at center is 37.9023N 122.52704W
68300 says Pittsburg — dunno which RR. Is that an SP 0-6-0 down there?
68275 a cantilever down there, so this one must be Sfe
69123 look E at Emeryville N of Powell St
68775 look N along SP from Key System underpass
68777 ditto — is it possible the Campanile's not in this pic?
68487 There's that East Oakland gas tank. SP-electric powerhouse was still alive.
68135 look SE from High St — no gas tank. The SP curve is the last one until the Niles curve.
68526 look N from SSF
68527 to 68531 more SSF (no view of depot)
68004 look N up Webster from 4th
68784 look SW from Webster-17th
68034 high Oakland look E — Posey construction
69194 look W at SP depot, etc in SF
69195 look N
69193 look S
69203 look N from Mission-8th
69204 look NE
69205 look SE from Market-8th
69202 look S
69031 Jefferson Square look NE (Vertigo house at Gough and Eddy, and now-gone St Mary's across from it)
69014 San Jose Ave running across the bottom of the pic, SP lower left with Alemany being built next to it
68963 look NW up Spear from the piers
69331 look NW up Fremont from the piers — 140 New Montgomery under constr
69428 look WNW over piers E of Telegraph Hill
69445 closeup Lombard-Embarcadero
69201 look NE from Eddy-Hyde
69411 early look N from 3rd-Mission
69142 look NE from Kearny-Sutter
68971 look N at NE end of Market St
69409 look W from Howard - New Montgomery (says 1923)
69188 not-great look WNW at piers and Telegraph Hill
69187 closeup look NE at piers N from Howard
69180 to 69185 good closeups Ferry Bldg look W (225 Bush under constr)
69189 look S there
69295 another look W
69207 look SE down 1st St from N of Market-- says 1923 (Matson Bldg under constr)
69186 look SW — same flight?
68973 so-so look S at Fisherman's Wharf
68970 better look E from Polk
69238 closeup look NE
69228 closeup look SE
69229 look SW
69403 look SW at Fort Mason — two RR lines E of tunnel?
69209 leftover tower from 1915 Exposition? (look E)
69249 look SE at Galileo HS under constr — says 1922
69687, 68958, 68960 Laguna St tank, 13 miles from Mills Field
68959, 68962 Army St tank, 6 miles from Mills Field
69090 look W Islais Creek — long SP trestle
69094 pair of semaphores on SP's trestle
69105 China Basin look SW
68301, 68276 four-lane hwy with streetcars in median — says Pittsburg (note "Vernon" (?) at bottom of 68276)
68266 also says Pittsburg and might be
68899, 68903 look NE at Dos Palos, couple miles off the West Side line
68626 says Glendale — two? parallel RRs, one might be electrified PE double track
NWP Larkspur station look N — still there at 37.93674N 122.5344W
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/larkspur-g.g.-bridge/68357
Good look SE at NWP Fairfax
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-57-fairfax/68387
NWP station — must be Waldo? Also seen in 68402, looking S. The hill at the L edge of the pic 37.871N 122.506, isn't it?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68376
looking NW at NWP from Almonte toward Mill Valley
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68377
Another short-name NWP station, on electrified double track
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68380
Two White Front (?) cars around Land's End
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/lincoln-park-looking-east/69362
Look E at Crockett, after the bridge
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68419
Could this be Permanente?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/69464
Good look N from Elmhurst — bldg at center is still there at 37.7425N 122.1841W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/69695
Same bldg is R of center in this one; 85th Ave runs across pic this side of the RR
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/alameda-county-unidentified-image/68927
Industry L of center in pic above, with a black-paint semaphore
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/mallable-castings/67880
(pics 68125 to 68127 are backwards views of this industry)
Look E at San Leandro industry betw WP-SP (see also 68078 below)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/lumber-co.-san-leandro/68079
Great view of Los Banos
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/los-banos/68898
One live RR, one or two dead ones — Contra Costa?
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marin-county-unidentified-image/68390
68149 good look E from 9th-Brush in Oakland
68150 higher look E from W of Market
68151 look E from 11th-Jefferson
68156 look E from 12th-Alice
69554 good closeup look E from Alameda — Montgomery Ward L of center
68167 look NE from Berkeley Univ Ave pier
68078 look NE at SP-WP in San Leandro — powerline tower in lower right corner likely? still there 37.7108N 122.1510W
69611 Ocean Shore? wood bridge
68891 backwards but good look at Los Banos
68904, 68905 more Los Banos
68392 dunno if this is Marin, or what RR that is. Odd to see a town that dense.
68396, 68397 says Marin — think it's true?
Look ENE at new Hwy 101 bridge over NWP at 37.9355N 122.5168W
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/marsh-land-lark-spur-san-quentin/68356
Look W at Almonte (junction of NWP branch to Mill Valley, about 37.8895N 122.5250W)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/mill-valley/68354
Point Reyes — the twin-tower bldg is still at 38.0700N 122.8072W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/novato-marin-58/69458
SW end of Twin Peaks Tunnel
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/miguel-looking-northeast/69372
Look SE at SP electric curve in Alameda
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/o.-shipyards/68061
Transit en route
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oak.-mole-s.p./68050
Look SE over Fruitvale — didn't know Montgomery Ward was originally smaller
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/melrose-fruitvale/68136
Another look N along the 9th St line. Apparently Ashby didn't exist W of San Pablo; it would be just past the 2nd SP curve.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67911
Looking N at steam local starting up the 9th St line
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67912
Looking N up Hollis from the Key xing
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67913
Looking NNW west of San Pablo, from 22nd St in Oakland
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67914
Looking N from Adeline St xing of SP-WP, with some mystery new tracks in the Homestead
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67915
Look NNW from SE of Peralta
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67916
Wow! SP electric curves away from the main at Melrose or whatever it was
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/oakland/67933
Out-of-focus view of Walnut Grove
Nielsen Packing Co. - Digital Collections (number 68564)
Better — end of track at Walnut Grove
Nielsen Packing Co. - Digital Collections (number 68575)
Look E east of SP S San Francisco. Would Western Meat have gotten stock cars? (68536 and 68537 don't show much more.)
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/metal-thermit-corp./68533
Look E at Butler Rd grade xing SSF
Mills Field, Western Pipe & Steel - Digital Collections (number 68718)
Look NE toward Twin Peaks Tunnel
Miraloma, Twin Peaks - Digital Collections (number 69398)
Good bet we're looking S thru Lodi — the foreground underpass is 38.1457N 121.2707W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68682
Sign says Lodi Canning Company, and Lodi looks likely, the crossing at 38.1265N 121.27206W. This view looks E
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68681
and this looks W.
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/nielsen-packing-co./68680
Two views of Firebaugh
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/so.-dos-palos/68877
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/so.-dos-palos/68879
SP town -- looks like no parallel highway, so West Side? Has semaphores, TO signal
https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/Documents/Detail/miller-lux/68895
(sign maybe says Dos Palos Lumber Yard — Dos Palos was a TO station, but I'm still leaning against the pic being it. 68903 and 68889 show the other Dos Palos, with no RR.)
69200 look E from Powell - O'Farrell says 1922 (225 Bush under constr)
69408 look NE on Mission from 3rd St
69106 look E on 22nd St from Mission
69039 good look S on Clayton
67917 look ENE from Channing-McGee in Berkeley
67918 Key had private right-of-way south of Peralta?
67934 good look NW, southwest side of E 14th St east of Melrose
67935 look N
67936 look NW — near left edge of pic, still-there bldg at 37.7425N 122.1841W
67930 good look E at Codornices Creek industry, and the incinerator
67931 look SW
67932 look NW
68168 look NNE at Martinez before the bridge
68174, 68335 look E, not sharp
68561, 68577, 68582, 68583, 68652, 68653 Isleton? Fruit picker houses in 68653? No SP to Isleton.
68573 good look at Rio Vista — bridge under construction? Says 1926
68578 to 68581, 68656, 68657 more Rio Vista
68668 SFe in Antioch?
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