Author: Grant Ute
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of "tall ships." But Alameda also was a busy railroad town. In 1864, a passenger railroad with a ferry connection created a commute to San Francisco. In 1869, the city became the first Bay Area terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. Alameda became an island because a railroad allowed construction crews to dig a tidal canal, separating it from Oakland in 1902. Later generations rode steam, then electric, trains to a grand ferry pier where ornate watercraft guided them the 20 minutes to San Francisco. An auto tube, and later the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, hastened the demise of ferry, then rail, operations before World War II.
Alameda by Rail
Author: Grant Ute
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of "tall ships." But Alameda also was a busy railroad town. In 1864, a passenger railroad with a ferry connection created a commute to San Francisco. In 1869, the city became the first Bay Area terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. Alameda became an island because a railroad allowed construction crews to dig a tidal canal, separating it from Oakland in 1902. Later generations rode steam, then electric, trains to a grand ferry pier where ornate watercraft guided them the 20 minutes to San Francisco. An auto tube, and later the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, hastened the demise of ferry, then rail, operations before World War II.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of "tall ships." But Alameda also was a busy railroad town. In 1864, a passenger railroad with a ferry connection created a commute to San Francisco. In 1869, the city became the first Bay Area terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. Alameda became an island because a railroad allowed construction crews to dig a tidal canal, separating it from Oakland in 1902. Later generations rode steam, then electric, trains to a grand ferry pier where ornate watercraft guided them the 20 minutes to San Francisco. An auto tube, and later the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, hastened the demise of ferry, then rail, operations before World War II.
The San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
Alameda Corridor (Alameda Railroad Corridor) Consolidated Project, from Downtown Los Angeles to Badger Avenue Bridge
Alameda
Author: Greta Dutcher
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738530390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Alameda was once a peninsula of grassy fields and sandy beaches, separated from Oakland by a snaking estuary. A tidal canal made Alameda an island in 1902 and its waterfront became a major shipping port. Park Street's bay-windowed commercial buildings looked out on a prosperous city of streetcars and comfortable homes. Between the two world wars, Alameda's Neptune Beach resort and amusement park became the “Coney Island of the West,” eventually boasting a Moorish entrance tower on Webster Street, a stadium, two swimming pools, a high dive, and a roller coaster called the “Whoopie.” Alameda's strategic location made its “airdrome” the busiest in the world in the 1930s and eventually attracted a U.S. Coast Guard base, known as Government Island, and the Alameda Naval Air Station.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738530390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Alameda was once a peninsula of grassy fields and sandy beaches, separated from Oakland by a snaking estuary. A tidal canal made Alameda an island in 1902 and its waterfront became a major shipping port. Park Street's bay-windowed commercial buildings looked out on a prosperous city of streetcars and comfortable homes. Between the two world wars, Alameda's Neptune Beach resort and amusement park became the “Coney Island of the West,” eventually boasting a Moorish entrance tower on Webster Street, a stadium, two swimming pools, a high dive, and a roller coaster called the “Whoopie.” Alameda's strategic location made its “airdrome” the busiest in the world in the 1930s and eventually attracted a U.S. Coast Guard base, known as Government Island, and the Alameda Naval Air Station.
The Alameda Corridor
Hearing by the Assembly Select Committee on the Alameda Corridor Project
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on the Alameda Corridor Project
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Red Trains in the East Bay
Author: Robert S. Ford
Publisher: Interurban Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: Interurban Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reusing Abandoned Railroad Rights-of-way for Rail Transit Lines in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Author: Duncan James Watry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Alameda County, California, "where Every Prospect Pleases," where Rail and Water Meet
Author: Alameda County (Calif.). Development Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Niles Canyon Railways
Author: Henry Luna
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630909
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
All aboard for this photographic journey through the unique railroad history of Niles Canyon, near the city of Fremont. The melodic wail of the steam whistle first echoed off these canyon walls in 1866 when the Western Pacific Railroad laid track into Niles as part of a planned route from San Jose to Sacramento. That was three years before the transcontinental route from Sacramento to Omaha was completed in May 1869. Four months after the driving of the Golden Spike that joined the eastern and western United States by rail, the connecting route from Sacramento to Oakland through Niles Canyon was finishedthe very last leg of a rail route that truly joined the Atlantic to the Pacific waters for the first time.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630909
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
All aboard for this photographic journey through the unique railroad history of Niles Canyon, near the city of Fremont. The melodic wail of the steam whistle first echoed off these canyon walls in 1866 when the Western Pacific Railroad laid track into Niles as part of a planned route from San Jose to Sacramento. That was three years before the transcontinental route from Sacramento to Omaha was completed in May 1869. Four months after the driving of the Golden Spike that joined the eastern and western United States by rail, the connecting route from Sacramento to Oakland through Niles Canyon was finishedthe very last leg of a rail route that truly joined the Atlantic to the Pacific waters for the first time.