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sacramento northern interurban used to cross suisun bay like that.
it was just two and a half tracks wide and they also had a small launch like that
that i think was just for maintainence of the slips at each end.
they just had that one ferry that i know of, that they used all the time.
this was back before the 1950s. not sure what year they stopped doing that.
probably about the time they ended passenger service, which i thing was some time in the late 40s or early 50s.
the rairoad still existed into the 60s and early 70s as a freight only.
the wire was taken down sometime in the 60s, with the last electrified bit around marysville and yuba city.
when the bay bridge from oakland to san francisco, they shared tracks with the key system into the east bay terminal,
which when the tracks were gone was used by ac transit buses.
the boats are long gone, but some of the rolling stock, both sacramento northern and key system,
is preserved at the bay area electric railway museum.
which is why this reminds me of a photo i've seen of that operation.
thought the boats were quite a bit different in superstructure, but considerably similar in dimentions
i remember the slips at each end were called mallard and chips. i wish i remembered what the ferry was called.
i never got to see this operation myself, as it was just a few years, less then five years actually, before i was born in 1948.
it might have been still going on, but by the time i started kindergarten in 1953, the passenger operation was gone for sure,
and the freight may have crossed from suisun on western pacific tracks, though the sn still used its trestle accross they yolo bypass between davis and west sacramento. if i'm not mistaken, sn became part of the wp before wp became part of up.
it was just two and a half tracks wide and they also had a small launch like that
that i think was just for maintainence of the slips at each end.
they just had that one ferry that i know of, that they used all the time.
this was back before the 1950s. not sure what year they stopped doing that.
probably about the time they ended passenger service, which i thing was some time in the late 40s or early 50s.
the rairoad still existed into the 60s and early 70s as a freight only.
the wire was taken down sometime in the 60s, with the last electrified bit around marysville and yuba city.
when the bay bridge from oakland to san francisco, they shared tracks with the key system into the east bay terminal,
which when the tracks were gone was used by ac transit buses.
the boats are long gone, but some of the rolling stock, both sacramento northern and key system,
is preserved at the bay area electric railway museum.
which is why this reminds me of a photo i've seen of that operation.
thought the boats were quite a bit different in superstructure, but considerably similar in dimentions
i remember the slips at each end were called mallard and chips. i wish i remembered what the ferry was called.
i never got to see this operation myself, as it was just a few years, less then five years actually, before i was born in 1948.
it might have been still going on, but by the time i started kindergarten in 1953, the passenger operation was gone for sure,
and the freight may have crossed from suisun on western pacific tracks, though the sn still used its trestle accross they yolo bypass between davis and west sacramento. if i'm not mistaken, sn became part of the wp before wp became part of up.
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