Unfinished History
Southern Pacific's San Jose Railroad chugging through the Mission District, c. 1920
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
Train on bridge near Dolores Street, 1908.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Railroad passing Bernal Cut, 1908.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Southern Pacific train running on Harrison Street near 21st, 1905.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
29th & Dolores Sts., apx. 1902, railroad bridge in background.
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
The actual route of the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad through Noe Valley - 1873 - (David Rumsey Collection)
Railroad right of way visibly curving through lower Noe Valley in this early 1940s aerial image.
Photo: San Francisco Planning Department