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File:North Portal of Tunnel 5, Bayshore Cutoff (40951416332).jpg cropped 20 % horizontally and 40 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode. File usage The following 2 pages use this file:
The Bayshore Cutoff reduced the distance to 10.5 miles (16.9 km) with a maximum grade of 0.3 percent. Once the Bayshore Cutoff was completed, and main line traffic was shifted to it, the former route was renamed the Ocean View Branch line. It was used to carry coffins to Colma; it was severed in the 1940s, but a few miles at the south end was ...
On December 8, 1907, the SP opened its Bayshore Cutoff between San Francisco and San Bruno. [10] The new cutoff was straighter and flatter than the old route: it reduced the maximum grade from 3% to 0.3%, the maximum elevation from 292 feet (89 m) to 20 feet (6.1 m), and the San Francisco–San Bruno distance from 13.69 miles (22.03 km) to 11. ...
English: Map showing the route of the Bayshore Cutoff (completed in 1907) and the prior route established by the SF&SJ RR in 1863 (renamed to the Ocean View route), through the Bernal Cut along much of what is now San Jose Avenue in San Francisco today.
English: Entitled "Bayshore Railroad". Location stated to be Visitacion Bay, so this is showing the Bayshore Cutoff route along with a long trestle across the water which was used to dump fill taken from the cuts to form the Visitacion/Bayshore Railyard.
Southern Pacific Bayshore Cutoff. Third and Townsend Depot: 4th and King Street: Ocean View Line. Tunnel 1 . 1.9 mi: 3.1 km . 22nd Street: Tunnel 2. Army .
(five) Bayshore Cutoff, originally built by the Southern Pacific railroad, tunnel 5 abandoned in 1956; The Portal (proposed) Salesforce Transit Center train box; Los Angeles Metro Rail (three) K Line (under construction) Figueroa Tunnel, on the E Line; Flower Street tunnel, carrying the A and E Lines to the 7th Street/Metro Center station
Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in South San Francisco for the Bayshore Highway on September 11, 1924. The route used a right-of-way that was 125 feet (38 m) wide with a four-lane undivided highway 40 feet (12 m) wide. [7] Looking west at the Sierra Point cut in Brisbane, 1929. The road crosses over Tunnel 5 of the Bayshore Cutoff rail line.