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The Pacific Coast Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway on the Central Coast of California.The original 10-mile (16 km) link from San Luis Obispo to Avila Beach and Port Harford was later built southward to Santa Maria and Los Olivos, with branches to Sisquoc and Guadalupe.
Port San Luis is a harbor on the central coast of California, approximately 1.3 miles (2.1 km) west of Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County.The harbor is managed by the Port San Luis Harbor District which is responsible for maintaining the surrounding tidelands and beaches.
This route was part of the Southern Pacific rail network that crossed Mexican territory at Tijuana passing through Tecate, leaving Mexico at a point near Campo, California; re-entering Mexican territory in Mexicali to leave Mexico at Algodones, in the northeastern part of the Baja California Peninsula. Right next to the station, in 1932, a malt ...
The station is located on the Tijuana-Tecate railroad line, which was built by concession on April 3, 1908. In 1907, the Inter-California Railway, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, began construction.
In 1953 the State of California acquired the Avila Adobe as part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park. Mrs. Sterling remained in the house until her death in 1963. The 1971 Sylmar earthquake caused major damage to the adobe, and the house was closed to tours until a $120,000 and five-year restoration could be completed.
"American railroad unions and the national railways of Mexico: An exercise in nineteenthâcentury proletarian manifest destiny," Labor History 15.2 (1974) pp: 239–260. Powell, Fred Wilbur. The Railroads of Mexico (1921) Van Hoy, Teresa. A social history of Mexico's railroads: peons, prisoners, and priests (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
Sunset over Avila Beach, May 2010 Diablo Canyon Power Plant near Port San Luis Brochure for San Luis Hot Springs (now Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort), [3] circa 1915. Avila Beach (Spanish: Ávila) is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, [4] located on San Luis Obispo Bay [5] about 160 miles (257 km) northwest of Los Angeles, and about 200 miles ...
This area, which extended to the Agua Azul park, was occupied by the schoolchildren's garden, several corrals, plots and some very humble houses. The station was built after demolishing the remaining walls of a former convent. The station was inaugurated on May 15, 1888, the day the first railroad arrived in the city, connecting it to Mexico ...