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Historical Outline Southern Pacific Company March 1933 REPRINT
Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society Historical Outline Southern Pacific Company March 1933
An historical overview of the Souther Pacific System, prepared by the SP's Bureau of news in 1933.
114 pages, indexed.
Soft Cover
106 pages
Copyright January 1995
CONTENTS
General description present routes and properties . . . . 1
Judah and the "Big Four" . . . 5
Central Pacific organized . . 8
Pacific Railroad Bill 8
Land Grants 9
Problems faced by Cent. Pacific 11
Ground broken at Sacramento . 13
First trains operated 14
Conquest of the Sierra . . . 15
Construction companies . . . 17
Track laying records 18
"Last Spike" driven 20
Pacific Coast expansion . . . 21
Early California railroads . 23
Overland line reaches Oakland 26
S.F. Bay District developments 28
South Pacific Coast Railroad . 30
Birth of Southern Pacific . . . 31
San Joaquin Valley line . . . . 33
S.F. and Los Angeles joined . . 36
Southern California lines 37
Coast Line completed 42
Across Arizona and New Mexico 44
Sunset Route completed . . . 46
Pioneer New Orleans road . . 50
Texas & New Orleans Railroad 53
Houston & Texas Central . . . 54
Lines forming G.H.&S A 56
S. P. Steamship Lines . . . . 59
Shasta Route into Oregon . . . 61
Other Lines in Oregon . . . . 67
Cascade and Modoc Lines 70
Re-Organization of S.P.-1884 72
Harriman Regime 74
Lucin Cut-Off 76
Bayshore Cut-Off 77
Lines in Mexico 79
Arizona & New Mexico lines 80
El Paso & Southwestern 83
Imperial Valley line 85
Colorado River break 85
San Diego & Arizona Railway 87
Pacific Mail Steamship Company 88
Pacific Fruit Express Company88
Northwestern Pacific R.R. Co.89
Electric Railway lines . . . . 91
California-Nevada branch lines 93
UP-SP-CP "Unmerger" cases . . 94
Federal Control of Railroads . 96
Major Projects since 1920 96
Double Tracking 97
Terminals, branch lines, and bridges 99
Acquisition of new properties 102
Branch lines on T & NO . . . 104
Meeting motor vehicle competition 104
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
Prepared by Bureau of News, Development Department, San Francisco, to meet a practically continuous demand from writers, students in schools and colleges, and others interested, for information about the early history and present day activities of the railroad. In the preparation of this outline an effort has been made to provide in convenient form answers to the innumerable questions that have been asked of this department over a period of years.
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