San Francisco-East Bay Rail Lines, 1939-1941 calurbanist.com
Key System SP IER (Southern Pacific Interurban Electric Railway) Thousand Oaks Station Transbay Colusa & Solano Albany Solano A Downtown Oakland/12th St 5 3 9 2 7 Oakland/7th St/Dutton East H B Trestle Glen/Grand Ave (Local & Express) Santa Fe & Key Route Blvd Bay C Piedmont/40th St 3 9 Berkeley/Shattuck G (Local & Express) University of E Claremont G California 4 6 Shattuck Alameda/Encinal Sacramento & Telegraph & F South Berkeley/Adeline (4 EB, 6 WB) Delaware Bancroft H Alameda/Lincoln Berkeley K Berkeley/Sacramento (4 WB, 6 EB) 9th St 5 Shuttles Berkeley/9th St G Westbrae Dinky Claremont Hotel S College Ashby & Claremont
Sacramento Northern Sacramento K College Ave E
Alcatraz F K Adeline & Alcatraz Stanford Claremont Adeline 55th St Transbay Terminal Mission & 1st St Emeryville A B C E F H S
2 3 4 5 6 7 9 Shafter 40th St
BRIDGE Piedmont Ave S BAY C Oakland Ave 16th St Station & Latham to Sacramento San 16th & Wood Oakland via Walnut Creek Poplar & Concord Piedmont Francisco Grand
12th St Lakeshore
7th St B Underhills Station Underhills Rd
A 2nd Ave A Brief History of Transbay Trains & 16th St 4 West Alameda 6 Station 1851-1939 Transbay transit service is limited 1941 The SP IER, Sacramento Northern to ferries. Starting in 1869, “moles” or Railway, and Key System G and H lines are causeways are extended from the East Bay abandoned. At the same time, the Key System shore to rail/ferry terminals miles out. A-Line is extended to Havenscourt & Bancroft Lincoln via the IER 7th Street line, and the F-Line to Main St 1903 A stylized map of the new San Francisco, Solano & The Alameda via Shattuck. Oakland & San Jose Railway renders Berkeley, Central Claremont/Piedmont and Oakland as finger 1946 The Key System is bought by automaker Fruitvale Station Fruitvale & 10th St holes on a skeleton key, the railway's new front company National City Lines. The A-1 Lincoln mole as a shaft, and the ferry berths at its end spur to 16th Street is eliminated, followed by as teeth. Eventually, the railway will be all local streetcars in 1948, and the rest of the Bancroft renamed the Key System. In 1911, the A-Line east of Downtown Oakland in 1950. Encinal Southern Pacific Railroad introduces the East Fruitvale Bay Electric Lines, or “Red Cars,” later known 1958 All remaining lines are shut down. The Alameda Tilden 2 7 as the Interurban Electric Railway or SP IER. Bay Bridge becomes a 10-lane freeway. to Dutton & 1939 The Transbay Terminal opens. Large 1974 BART's Transbay Tube opens. BART lines Bancroft electric trains, similar to modern light rail, use historic rights-of-way including the Key San Leandro begin using the lower deck of the Bay Bridge System G-Line (the Westbrae Dinky), now part
(which opened to cars in 1937). of the Richmond Line and Ohlone Greenway. Fernside c 2012 Steve Boland