Alameda By Rail
Alameda By Rail (CA) (Images of Rail) Grant Ute, Bruce Singer,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738547069
DDC: 978
Edition: Paperback; 2007-03-14
Summary:
Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved
into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture
and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and
the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of tall
ships. But Alameda also was a busy railroad town. In 1864, a
passenger railroad with a ferry connection created a commute to San
Francisco. In 1869, the city became the first Bay Area terminus of
the Transcontinental Railroad. Alameda became an island because a
railroad allowed construction crews to dig a tidal canal, separating
it from Oakland in 1902. Later generations rode steam, then electric,
trains to a grand ferry pier where ornate watercraft guided them the
20 minutes to San Francisco. An auto tube, and later the San
Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, hastened the demise of ferry, then
rail, operations before World War II.
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