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This CD contains a searchable PDF of the only history book chronicling the incredible story of the Market Street Railway of 1893. Not available in print form, this superb mix of photos, equipment rosters, and compelling text will awe you for hours, viewed on your computer. Searchable. 471 pages. Authors Emiliano Echeverria, Michael Dolgushkin, and Walter Rice. Read More……
See three Bay Area electric lines in one video – the Sacramento Northern Railroad, Interurban Electric Railroad (IER Southern Pacific Red Trains) and the Peninsular Railway Company! Film by a variety of rail historians from 1910 to 1957 show rail and ferry operations in the Bay Area’s early days. DVD is 67 minutes, in color and black & white, fully narrated. A Charles Smiley production in association with Catenary Video Productions.
Rails of the Golden City: 150 Years of Cable Cars, Streetcars, & Steam Trains in San Francisco. Extraordinary film footage by a variety of rail historians from 1873 to present day showing rail operations in the Bay Area. Documentary includes 8 Cable Car lines, 6 Market Street Railway lines, 3 abandoned Muni Streetcar lines, Southern Pacific Steam in 1955, Shops, Carbarns, Maps, and the 1906 Earthquake & Fire. Contains rare motion picture footage from the Western Railway Museum Archive and the Prelinger Archive.
DVD is 65 minutes long, in color and black & white, fully narrated. Produced by Warren Haack with Catenary Video Productions.
