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The South Pacific Coast Railroad was a 3 ft narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California, and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco. The railroad was creat
Postcard photo of the Southern Pacific Big Tree station and locomotive #21, c. 1910s
"Views on the South Pacific Coast Railroad" featuring locations in Santa Cruz County (1882)
Schedule and fares for March 4, 1887
Southern Pacific narrow-gauge coach #39, at the Southern California Railway Museum. It was built by Carter Brothers in 1881 at their Newark shop for the South Pacific Coast Railroad. The museum also has South Pacific Coast flat car #253, which was later converted into Southern Pacific gondola #216.
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 05:12 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. With a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI, it created high-intensity sh
South Pacific Coast Railroad
…locomotives, 85 passenger cars and 500 freight cars before the conversion to standard gauge began. The transition to standard gauge was interrupted by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The line through the Santa Cruz Mountains suffered major damage including a lateral slip of 5 feet (1.5 m) in the tunnel where it crossed the San…
Ruins in the vicinity of Post and Grant Avenue
Damaged houses on Howard Street
Seismographs on the U.S. east coast recorded the earthquake some 19 minutes later. Some early death estimates exceeded 500.
Arnold Genthe's photograph, looking toward the fire on Sacramento Street