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Blue & Gold also operates tourist and excursion services under its own brand from Pier 41 in San Francisco, with midday ferry service to Sausalito and a variety of tourist routes. The company is the Bay Area's largest ferry transportation provider and carries approximately 4 million passengers annually.
The terminal served as the southern terminus and ferry connection to San Francisco for the North Pacific Coast Railroad, [2] which purchased the service in 1875. [1] Pedestrian ferries were discontinued on February 28, 1941, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] with car ferry service ended by March, a few years after opening of the Golden Gate Bridge .
The railroad was bought by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad which shifted all passenger rail and San Francisco ferry service to Sausalito in 1909, leaving Tiburon freight-only; shuttle passenger ferries from Tiburon to Sausalito continued until 1933. [2] Freight rail service ended September 25, 1967. [3]
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Golden Gate Ferry began service between San Francisco and Sausalito on August 15, 1970 with the M.S. Golden Gate. [3] Service to Larkspur started in 1976. Service to Pacific Bell Park (now Oracle Park) started in 2000.
Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...
Steam trains at Sausalito Terminal, photo dated May 1891 The Eureka, then the largest double-ended ferryboat in the world, carried passenger and automobile traffic on the Sausalito–San Francisco run from 1922 to 1941. (Pictured in San Francisco in 2008)
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — In the Bay Area, the place to be for fireworks on New Year’s Eve is along San Francisco’s waterfront. If you’re looking for the best places to watch fireworks on New ...