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The Key System: San Francisco and the Eastshore Empire (CA) (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Walter Rice, Emiliano Echeverria
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 233856
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738547220
Dewey Decimal Number: 978
EAN: 9780738547220
ASIN: 0738547220
Publication Date: April 25, 2007
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Product Description
It is difficult now to imagine San Francisco Bay without bridges, but not too long ago, a complex system of ferries and trains helped span the waters in an elegant way. The Key System was a huge portion of this network; it was part of businessman Borax Smiths method to attract San Francisco workers to live in the cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and Piedmont, where he dealt in real estate. The Southern Pacific Railroad was the Key Systems fierce competitor, then later an ally, before it was vanquished. Thousands of commuters rode the system for years, until a ridership decline eventually doomed the Key when bridges finally crisscrossed the bay.
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Informative, great pictures April 8, 2008
Since our family once used the Key-System, it was great to read about it, and see all the places it went to.
Key to the Key System October 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was everything I hoped it would be. As a railway buff and a fan of the Key System it is a great addition to my library
Impressed! October 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm very impressed with the photos in this book. Some of these seem to be newly discovered. My father rode the Key System Bay Bridge trains during the 1950s as I mentioned in my review for another Key system book.
It is fitting that this book was published about one year before last months's 50th anniversary of the end of the Key System's Bay Bridge rail service on Sunday April 20th, 2008 as reported in the April 18 th issue of the San Francisco Chronicle. Although I can't think of a more sadder and tragic day to remember than this, volunteers at the Western Railway Museum north of San Francisco observed it by operating to two surviving Key System bridge units.
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