PAGES

Maps: See page bottom

New 12-05: Carrizozo Sub
Jawbone Dispatching Comes to Tucumcari; many pages!

New 12-05 Santa Rosa, N.M. (part of the above)

New 12-05: Niles Tower & Environs; two pages

San Francisco

San Francisco Peninsula

• Depot Photos
• Headend trip, 1972

San Jose & Santa Clara Valley

Watsonville, coming

Castroville Depot, 1974

Monterey Branch (part of Del Monte series)

Altamont Pass, 4-6-6-2's

Ogden,1969 (part of Mail & Express series)

SP Northwest (N.CA & OR)

• Part 1
• Part 2

Canby Oregon, 1974

Donner Pass

• Part 1, 1975
• Part 2, 1980

Nevada, Carlin & Wells

__VINTAGE SOUTHERN PACIFIC - pre 1976:

• Jim Lancaster's Trains Page; SP & others, mostly 1950's to 70's with lots of passenger cars in color
• Rob Jaycox's Western Rails, Yardclerk Collection; SP section has many 1950's to 70's color diesel photos
• Joel Ashcroft's Southern Pacific in the Cascades; a huge repository of all things & eras pertaining to subject
• Robert Morris Photography; a commercial site that includes the Shasta Division Archives, SP in Dunsmuir & other areas, all eras
• CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Photographic History Museum; A fantastic source of early CP/SP photos and maps
• San Francisco Public Library's Historical Photographs Collection; scores of online photos of SP, plus everything else San Francisco, from its earliest days

__MODERN SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CALTRAIN - post 1975:

• Dan's Depot on the Coast Line; Caltrain Engineer Dan Klitzing's site devoted to contemporary San Francisco to S.L.O.
• Railroading in the San Francisco Bay Area; Caltrain Engineer Frank Caron's site features Ocean View Line history / today
• Ken Rattene's San Jose Sentinals; pages devoted to former Santa Clara & College Park Towers & San Jose Telegraph

_BIBLIOGRAPHIC:

• A WORKING LIST OF BOOKS AND BOOKLETS
  ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES, compiled by Peter J. McClosky for the Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society.
  
  

• Southern Pacific's Coast Line (1994), Southern Pacific's Coast Line Pictorial (1999) and Southern Pacific's Western Division (2003), by dedicated SP historian and man-of-many-talents John R. Signor (Signature Press, pub.); much info on Wx4 is gleaned from his writings. All are in print.
• Southern Pacific Bay Area Steam, by Harre W. Demorrow (Chatham Publishing, 1979, out of print); a fine picture book with many early photos, including ferries and NWP.
• Prune Country Railroading, by ex WP Engineer Norman W. Holmes (Shade Tree Books, 1985, out of print); Wx4 depends heavily upon this excellent resource on all Santa Clara Valley railroads (excluding electric).
• Tracks, Tires and Wires, by Charles S. McCaleb (Inreurban Press, 1981, out of print); a thorough history of SP's Peninsular Railways interurbans in the Santa Clara Valley, plus local streetcars and bus lines. His earlier The San Jose Railroads Centennial 1868-1968 (Local History Studies, Foothill Jr, College District, 1968) is a very rare spiral-bound booklet covering the same topic.
• When Steam Ran in the Streets of San Francisco, by Walter Rice & Emiliano Echeverria (pub. 2002 by Harold E. Cox, 80 Virginia Terrace, Forty Fort PA 18704, in print?); a really fascinating, absolute-must-have, sleeper of a book that covers the Ocean View Line, amongst many others.
• Peninsula Service, by Fred A. Stindt (The Wesstern Railroader, Issue No. 213, July 1957; reprinted 1967? out of print) The standard reference for vintage SP commute service info.

• May, 1884 Public
  • Peninsula commute fares
  • Monterey Bay resort descriptions, woodcut images
• February, 1889 Public
  • Coast Division: San Francisco to Santa Margarita & branches
  • South Pacific Coast Railway Division
  • System-wide stagecoach and railroad connections (374k file)
• June, 1891 Public
  • Monterey Line; Pacific Grove Extension; Central Coast resorts advertisement
• April, 1907 Public
  • San Francisco to San Jose via Ocean View line (pre Bayshore Cutoff)
  • Central Coast Branches (incl. Santa Cruz Line severed by '06 earthquake)
  • More Central Coast branches
• November, 1908 Public
  • San Francisco to San Jose (post Bayshore Cutoff)
  • Central Coast Branches
• September, 1910 Local and Suburban
  • San Francisco to Monterey & branches
• May 6, 1928, Coast Division #129, employee
  • Monterey Branch
• August, 1940 Public
  • Monterey Branch
• October 19, 1947 Peninsula Commute, Public
  • Side 1
  • Side 2
• April 25, 1952 Coast Division #161, employee
  • Monterey Branch
• January 6, 1964 Public
  • Coast Route
• May 12, 1968 Peninsula Commute, Public
  • Side 1
  • Side 2
• October 29, 1978 Western Division #12, employee
  • Last Monterey Branch timetable before cutback to Seaside
• New 12-05 Carrizozo Sub, 1984
• New 12-05 Niles Sub, 1937; (1) ; (2)
• New 12-05 Niles Sub, 1980

Maps

• 16th & Harrison Eng. Term, 1899 Sanborn Map COOL!
• 1907 Coast Line & "Missions of California" from April public tt.
• 1908 Central, Northern California, from November public tt.
• 1880-1950 Sanborn Company city maps
  • 1928 Castroville depot immediate area
  • 1928 Castroville depot locale
  • 1905 Monterey
  • 1905 Pacific Grove
  • 1928 Mt. Shasta, CA
  • 1928 Weed, CA
• 1913 color San Francisco Bay Map at cprr.org; COOL!
• 1915 California Board of Trade
  • Central California
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Monterey Area
• 1940's, 50's Coast Division "Clear Standing Room" Yard Maps
• 1956 San Francisco USGS Topo Map
  • Mission Bay, 3rd & Townsend Depot , 7th Street Diesel Shops, ATSF interchange & yard
  • Bayshore Yard
• 1960's, 70's SPINS ( Southern Pacific Industrial Numbering System) Book maps
• Monterey Branch profile from October 30, 1983 Western Division Timetable #25; after branch cut back to Seaside
• New 12-05 Niles Tower & Vicinity, 1970; main tracks; a Wx4 original!
• New 12-05 Niles Subdivision, 1937
• New 12-05 Carrizozo Subdivision, 1982

Advertisements

• Market Street Cable Railway / Park and Ocean Railroad (1889 SP timetable)
• Santa Clara & San Jose Electric Ry., 1904 Sunset Magazine Ad
• Overland Limited 1915 color
• SP Morgan Hill 1901 "Colonist" tickets promotion
• 1937 Coast Daylight, Saturday Evening Post, color
• 1944 Coast Daylight from the Saturday Evening Post, a color beauty!
• 1951 Golden State, color
• 1951 City of SF, color
• 1951 Sunset Limited, color
• 1954 Coast Daylight, b&w
• 1954 City of SF, with 'populated' "SP"

Tickets

• Southern Pacific, Caltrans & Caltrain
  Tickets from the 1980's
• Del Monte Ticket, April 25, 1971
• City of San Francisco Tickets, July 3, 1969