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From San Francisco to Salt Lake City Along the Line of the Western Pacific RR
From San Francisco to Salt Lake City Along the Line of the Western Pacific Railroad The Feather River Route Copyright 1944 For sale only enroute on the SP.
As we cross the bay San Francisco looms up impressively on its hills. the foreground bristling with the tall buildings of the business section. Telegraph Hill, comprising the Latin quarter is to the extreme right, and a little beyond, Russian Hill- an artistic residential district and directly beyond the Clock Tower of the Ferry Building is seen Nob Hill, topped by the palatial Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels. conspicuous landmarks.
Midway we pass close to Yerba Buena Island. a Naval Training Station- Alcatraz- Island lies farther north.
The trip across the bay to Oakland is three miles. Oakland is the rail terminus for routes east and north, and also central California points.
SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE completed in 1937 at a cost of $77,600.000.00. Total length eight and one-quarter miles of which four and one-half miles is over water.
The tower over which the suspension cables are hung range in height from 470 feet to 515 feet above the water.
The two cables that stretch over the towers and support the bridge are twenty-eight and three-quarters inches in diameter and each contains 17,464 strands of wire. Maximum clearance between bridge and water is 216 feet-
The bridge is ninety feet wide and has two decks- The top deck has a highway sixty feet wide with six lanes for traffic. The lower deck provides three lanes for trucks and busses and in addition has two tracks for interurban electric railway.
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