Unofficial and Slightly Irreverent Railfans Guide to the Bay Area By Frank Jur

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Unofficial and Slightly Irreverent Railfans Guide to the Bay Area By Frank Jur
 
The Unofficial and Slightly Irreverent Railfans Guide to the Bay Area By Frank Jur
Copyright 1979 FIRST PRINTING
72 pages
My first trip to San Francisco was in 1965, and was a college graduation gift from my mother. I was living in Chicago then, and in the intervening years I came back here many times. But instead of bus trips to the Redwoods or bar hopping on Union St., I would strap 20 pounds of camera gear to my body and chase the Muni, the SP or the Belt.
Unlike Chicago, however, there was no railfan guide. So when I moved to California, I resolved to rectify that situation. Girthing my loins in the cloak of ignorance and arming myself with the spirit of foolhardiness, I plunged ahead.
This book is a collection of reasonably reliable information and some personal opinion about locations and activities in the Bay Area of interest to rail-fans and tourists who would be railfans. It is hoped that you will find it useful, informative, and most of all -- fun.

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Copyright 1979
CONTENTS
1 ONCE I GET THERE -- HOW DO I GET THERE 1
2 RAILFAN SURVIVAL -- SOME RANDOM HINTS 6
3 HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE 11
4 BAY AREA RAILROADS -- A CAPSULE HISTORY 13
5 SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO 15
6 WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD 17
7 SPNTE FE RAILROAD 19
8 AMTRAK 21
9 MUNI (MUNICIPAL RAILROAD OF SAN FRANCISCO) 23
10 BART (BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT) 25
11 OTHER BAY AREA RAILROADS 27
12 LOCATION GUIDE TO RAILFAN SPOTS 29                                                                Alameda Belt Engine House -- Alameda 30                                                                     Amtrak Station -- Oakland 31                                                                                       Amtrak/SP Station -- San Jose 32                                                                                    Bayshore Roundhouse -- Brisbane    33                                                                                    Fourth & Townsend SP Station -- San Francisco 34                                                        Geneva Barn -- San Francisco 35                                                                              Geneva Shops -- San Francisco 36                                                                                             Hallidie Plaza -- San Francisco 37                                                                                                    McArthur Station -- BART -- Oakland 38                                                                                      San Francisco Tunnels -- San Francisco 39                                                                               San Jose Roundhouse -- San Jose 40                                                                                                Santa Clara Yards -- Santa Clara 41                                                                                                    St. Francis Circle -- San Francisco 42                                                                               Transbay Transit Terminal -- San Francisco 43                                                                             WP Freight House -- San Francisco 44
13 LOCATION GUIDE TO MUSEUMS & TOURIST LINES 45                                                 Cable Car Museum -- San Francisco 46                                                                         California Railway Museum -- Rio Vista Junction 47                                                        California State Railroad Museum -- Sacromento 48                                                             Castro Point -- Richmond 49                                                                                                         Roaring Camp & Big Trees -- Felton 50
14 LOCATION GUIDE TO MINIATURE RAILROADS 51                                                   Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad -- Los Gatos 52                                                                Calistoga Steam Railroad -- Calistoga 53                                                                                           Folsom Valley Railroad -- Folsom 54                                                                               Golden Gate Live Steamers -- Berkley 55                                                                                   Happy Hollow Zoo Railroad -- San Jose 56                                                                  Kennedy Express -- Hayward 57                                                                                                  Nut Tree Railroad -- Vacaville 58                                                                                                          Redwood Valley Railway -- Berkley 59
15 DIRECTORY OF STATIC DISPLAYS 60
16 DIRECTORY OF RAILROAD ARCHEOLOGY SPOTS 62
17 DIRECTORY OF RAILROAD THEME RESTURANTS 64
18 DIRECTORY OF HOBBY SHOPS 65
19 DIRECTORY OF MODEL RAILROAD CLUBS ß7
20 RAILFAN'S YELLOW PAGES 68
21 BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS 70
22 AFTERWORD 72


INTRODUCTION 
My first trip to San Francisco was in 1965, and was a college graduation gift from my mother. I was living in Chicago then, and in the intervening years I came back here many times. But instead of bus trips to the Redwoods or bar hopping on Union St., I would strap 20 pounds of camera gear to my body and chase the Muni, the SP or the Belt.
Unlike Chicago, however, there was no railfan guide. So when I moved to California, I resolved to rectify that situation. Girthing my loins in the cloak of ignorance and arming myself with the spirit of foolhardiness, I plunged ahead.
This book is a collection of reasonably reliable information and some personal opinion about locations and activities in the Bay Area of interest to rail-fans and tourists who would be railfans. It is hoped that you will find it useful, informative, and most of all -- fun.
Frank A. Jur, Sunnyvale, California


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