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Sacramento Northern Gallery by James H Harrison Soft Cover
Sacramento Northern Gallery by James H Harrison
Soft Cover REflections from lights on some photos.
96 pages
Copyright 2002
CONTENTS
Sacramento Northern Gallery A photographic journey from San Francisco to Chico
Train #27
Train #36
SN #1015
#1012
#1003
#62
#1023
Train #29, #902, #1014
#1005
#1011
#1009
#1008
#442
#499
#497
#1015, #605, #602 being serviced
#1015, #186
#1016, #1015
#1014
#1023
#652, #653
#1607
#440
#1001
#661
Pic taken from the bridge of the RAMON in Suisun Bay
SN diesels #401, and #145 at the 17th and D Streets terminal in downtown Sacramento
GP7 #711 along Chicos Esplanade
INTRODUCTION
Of all the interurban railroads that once populated the American landscape, few were so diverse in their operations or so well documented as northern California's Sacramento Northern Railway. For a brief, shining moment in time (less than three years, actually), it was possible to board a gleaming green parlor car or coach in downtown San Francisco and ride that same car all the way to distant Chico, some 180 miles to the northeast. Few through trains (or even cars) accomplished this feat, because most passenger trips were local, but the fact exists that it could be done.
A passenger taking the trip from San Francisco to Chico between 1939 and 1941 would be treated to a spectacular ride above the water on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, where SN trains mingled with those of the Key System and Southern Pacific's Interurban Electric. (Before the bridge was opened to rail traffic in 1939, a passenger ticketed on the Sacramento Northern began the trip with a ride on a Key System passenger ferry to Oakland, boarding the SN train at the Key Pier.) After negotiating the streets of Oakland, the train would finally gain SN's own rails at 40`h and Shafter Streets in northeast Oakland.
The train then faced a severe grade up into the hills behind Oakland, where suburban homes were gradually displaced by native trees. A tunnel penetrated the spine of the Oakland Hills, emerging from the east portal and traversing surprisingly wild forest before descending into the (then) rolling fields and groves of Moraga, Walnut Creek and Concord.
Near Pittsburg, then and now a nexus of heavy industry, ocean traffic and rail lines, the train ducked through a short "subway" under the parallel Southern Pacific and Santa Fe mainlines to reach the shore of Suisun Bay. Here was the site of another impressive water crossing-in place of the bridge it could never afford to build-where the SN operated America's only interurban car ferry.
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