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Ocean Shore Railroad (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Hunter
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0738529389
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.09794
EAN: 9780738529387
ASIN: 0738529389
Publication Date: December 6, 2004
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Product Description
With one of the worlds most scenic backdrops as a brilliant seascape for passengers, the Ocean Shore Railroad skirted northern Californias coastline to service communities south of San Francisco for the first two decades of the 20th century. As impressive as it was idealistic, the line was held prisoner by natural forces that eventually took too much of a toll to keep its striking route churning. Todays Highway 1 traces the passage once paved with tracks, and points to the few remnants of one of Californias most well-known excursion lines.
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The forgotten Ocean Shore railroad January 11, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is much of San Francisco and Bay Area history that
has become forgotten. But if you look around you'll see bits
and pieces of it, remnants of a bygone age.
Before the days of urban sprawl, mass transit, and the demise of the railroad, small local railroads were to be found all of the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the most
picturesque was the Ocean View railroad which started out in San Francisco and eventually ended up in near Santa Cruz. Started in 1905, the railway was all but obliterated in the earthquake of 1906. Engines from the railway did assist
in clearing debris from the city and hauling relief supplies.
Construction started again soon, cutting a roadbed along the Pacific coast. It was hoped that with the railroad, some
housing development for vaction homes would blossom as well. The train ran through little communities like Salada, Half Moon Bay and Rock a way beach.
Unfortunately its bug competition Southern Pacific was always in the background, trying to snuff out the operation.
And with the introduction of more highways and automobiles, the days of the railraod were numbered. The last gasp of the line was in 1920, when gas powered rail
cars were used to haul excursion passengers.
Not much of the railway exists today, except for a few station houses, and traces of the righ of way. As with all Arcadia publications there is a nice mix of historical photos and modern images to compare the changes over time. a nice feature in the end, is a model railroad that was built to commemorate the railway.
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