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Ted Miles

September 19, 2005 10:51AM

John,
I don't know about a map of the tracks on the State Belt Line, but I will ask the reference librarian tomorrow when he comes back from his weekend.
For sure the NWP had car float operations to the Pier 43 slip until the 1920s. They had the UKIAH for standard gauge and the ferry Lagunitas for narrow gauge and passengers. Their last narrow gauge branch to Point Reyes went in 1930.
Down at the south end of the State Belt Line, the Western Pacific and the Sante Fe ran car floats into the China Basin slip, but they were standard gauge.
The South Pacific Coast only went to Alameda and by ferry to San Francisco. They went to standard gauge about 1907/8. Thet were delayed by the 1906 earthquake.
Ted Miles

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Re: Dueling Gauges in SF	John West	September 18, 2005 12:44PM
Re: Dueling Gauges in SF	Jeff Badger	September 18, 2005 08:46PM
Re: Dual Gauge in SF	Tom Shreve	September 19, 2005 08:25AM
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Re: Dual Gauge in SF	John Goldie	September 20, 2005 10:21PM
Re: Dual Gauge in SF PIC	Ed Kelley	September 21, 2005 01:10AM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF	Brian Norden	September 18, 2005 02:25PM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF	John West	September 18, 2005 03:07PM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF	John Goldie	September 18, 2005 09:21PM
Re: Dual Gauge trackage in SF	Ed Kelley	September 18, 2005 11:26PM
Re: Dual Gauge trackage in SF	John West	September 19, 2005 08:31AM
Re: Dual Gauge trackage in SF	Ted Miles	September 19, 2005 10:51AM
Re: Dual Gauge trackage in SF	John West	September 19, 2005 11:36AM
Au contraire, SG vs NG DUEL in SF, NG died. NM	M Austin	September 18, 2005 11:11PM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF LINK PIC	Randy Hees	September 19, 2005 03:10PM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF	Ted Miles	September 19, 2005 08:47PM
Re: Duel Gauge trackage in SF	Jeff Hartmann	September 21, 2005 04:42AM
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