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Sacramento Northern by Harre W Demoro W dust jacket
Sacramento Northern by Harre W Demoro
Hard Cover w/DUST JACKET
352 pages
Copyright 1991
CONTENTS
Preface, by Jeffrey Moreau6
Foreword7
Chapter 1The Promise of the Interurban13
Chapter 2The Northern Electric23
Chapter 3Oakland, Antioch & Eastern69
Chapter 4The Merged Interurban109
Chapter 5Epilogue147
Chapter 6A Ride on the Sacramento Northern165
Chapter 7Electric Freight Service197
Chapter 8Streetcar Operations229
Chapter 9Electric Railway Equipment243
Chapter 10Operations and Facilities289
Appendix 1: Traffic and Revenues315
Appendix 2: Time Tables321
Appendix 3: Equipment Drawings325
Appendix 4: Personnel and Operation329
Bibliography333
Index345
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION THE SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILWAY was one of America's great electric interurban railways, offering almost any service and experience that the traveler might desire-high-speed trains, dining and parlor cars, and local streetcars. The SN had steep grades, a tunnel, picnic grounds in a redwood grove, long trestles, bridges, a ferryboat that carried an entire train across a freshwater bay, and a spectacular ride over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Passenger trains of the SN were a technological wonder of the day and operated on three voltages, using trolley poles, pantographs and third-rail shoes. Automatic cab signals guided the green interurban trains over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
From its earliest days, the SN also was a major freight carrier, using electric-powered equipment. Late at night, when passenger trains did not operate, electric freight motors hauled the agricultural products of the Sacramento Valley and the output of Bay Area factories.
Like most intercity electric railways, the SN was built by local capitalists involved in other enterprises-in this case, men who had sought riches in the reclamation projects and bountiful harvests of the Sacramento Valley, and the development of hydroelectric power. Unfortunately, like most electric intercity railways, the Sacramento Northern was almost always broke, but because the promoters built the line to high engineering standards for freight as well as passengers, the steam-powered Western Pacific Railroad bought the interurban and turned it into a valuable network of freight feeders.
The book deals with more than trains and tracks: it sets the story in the context of its era-a time when California was emerging from the financial impact of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Golden State was harnessing her big rivers, embarking on major irrigation projects and entering a period of economic boom that would make her America's most populous and wealthiest state-and the Sacramento Northern played a key role in that drama.
Included here are more than 470 rare photographs, many of them published for the first time, as well as detailed chapters on the history, finance, rolling stock, signals, power systems and terminals. Timetables, financial and traffic data, scale drawings of rolling stock, and tickets are also included and, in one chapter, the reader takes a ride on the Sacramento Northern in the mid-1930s. Maps were drawn especially by Seattle cartographer Wayne Hom, with an endsheet map by John Signor. Altogether, this is a rich and rewarding account of railroad history and operation.
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