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Authors:	Addison Laflin, Dudley Thickens, John W. Dodge, Art Lloyd, Vernon Sappers, Ira L. Swett
Title:	Sacramento Northern
Publisher:	Interurban Press
Country:	USA
Date:	Jun 1950
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	388.46
Genre:	Transport
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Special 9
48 pages, 1000 copies printed
Published in collaboration with the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association

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WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Collection of detailed articles that provide a fascinating history of the Sacramento Northern, at one time the world's longest interurban railway. As is usual with the Interurban Specials, the sheer amount of unique information provided is amazing and invaluable. (In one short paragraph, we learn that Henry A. Butters, who founded the Northern Electric Rwy., built the first railroad in South Africa and made so much money on a Mexican railroad venture that he was then able to fund the Northern Electric.) Also has a section on the ferries run by the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern. Includes cars rosters, equipment notes, system maps, timetable, and schematic diagrams of cars and locomotives. Scarce.



WPLives 31st Jul 2021		3rd printing (1981) of the classic Interurbans Special No. 26 by Ira Swett. The definitive survey of the Sacramento Northern Electric Railway, once the world's longest interurban. The line ran between San Francisco and Chico, California, providing an amazing variety of scenery along the way -- from quite rural towns to the heart of San Francisco. This volume covers the North End (the Northern Electric and its successor, the Sacramento Northern Electric), the South End (the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern and its successor, the San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad) followed by a thorough discussion of life after the two sections merged to form the Sacramento Northern Railway. The facilities, power plants, operation, financial data, equipment, passenger (street car lines) and freight businesses, the construction of the Bay Bridge -- all are covered in fascinating detail. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With several maps as well as timetables, tickets, advertisements and other ephemera. 208 pages. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Various Authors - Sacramento Northern - Interurban Press - Paperback - USA - 0916374475 (1962)