The Key System: San Francisco and the Eastshore Empire (CA) (Images of Rail)

The Key System: San Francisco and the Eastshore Empire (CA) (Images of Rail)
Author: Walter Rice, Emiliano Echeverria
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Description: Paperback 128 pages
ISBN: 0738547220

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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