WPLives 30th Jul 2021
| | Key System Articulated Cars
by Stephen M Hayes
Copyright 2016
Spiral Bound
229 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
The Key Route Evolution-----3
Key Articulated Unit #650 at the Pier Terminal, 1932-----5
Key Type 650, 1937-----6-7
Photograph of wreck-----8
Development of the Articulated Cars--9
Bibliography-----12
Prior to the Bay Bridge Operations----13
Last Day Before Bay Bridge Operations Commenced, January 14, 1939-----15
Inside the Train Shed at the Key Pier, 1938-----16
Key Pier Terminal, 1938-----17
Key Pier Terminal, January 1939-----18
A Line Map of 105th Avenue & East 14th Street-----22
Fairfax Station on old SP Bancroft Line-----28
B Line from Popular Street East on 22nd to Grand Avenue to Underhills--46
Key Unit 181 climbs hill east of Grand Lake-----48
C Line route shown on Key System Map-----60
E Line ran out 55th Street to Claremont Ave. Map-----80
F Line Map-----94
G Line off Sacramento St to Westbrae via Key Route Blvd. Map-----122
H Line was the Berkeley-Sacramento St Line-----124
The K Line-----151
Shipyard Railway-Emeryville to Richmond. Map-----153
The Key System Shipyard Railway--154
Golden Gate International Exposition Trains-----172.
A complete pictorial history of the little-known but fascinating Key System, a series of passenger lines serving Oakland, nearby cities, and across the bay into San Francisco.
Starting prior to the opening of the Bay Bridge, and covering the entire period through closure in the 1950s, this volume contains many never-before-published photographs, packed with items of interest.
All lines forming the Key System are covered, with route maps and details of operations, plus the Shipyard Railway, the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition trains, maintenance cars, and other topics.
Also contains a full reprint of 40-page bulletin published by the General Railway Signal Company in 1939: Railway Signaling on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. |