The San Leandro Historical Railway Society (SLHRS) is housed in the San Leandro depot which was built in 1898 by the Southern Pacific Railroad to replace the original depot built by the Central ...

Located about an hour’s detour away for travelers driving Interstate 5 between San Francisco ... in 1876 on the Southern Pacific Line, it was considered one of the railroad world’s ...

Williamson led portions of the southern survey, aided by Lt. John Parke. It was Parke and his team who traversed the San Gorgonio ... and that was the Southern Pacific Railroad, which, after ...

In San Francisco and New York ... By 1900 a number of routes ran parallel — the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific among them — reaching westward from Mississippi to the Pacific just ...

Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison ... when the newly formed Western Pacific Railroad finally connected San Francisco and Salt Lake City (and ultimately the D&RGW) on ...