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Eureka is a side-wheel paddle steamboat, built in 1890, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. Originally named Ukiah to commemorate the railway's recent extension into the City of Ukiah , the boat was built by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company at their ...
San Francisco and Northwestern Railway (SF&NW) was an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary formed in 1903 to connect Humboldt Bay to the Santa Fe rail system. The Eel River and Eureka Railroad had been built in 1884 to provide Humboldt Bay shipping access to lumber mills and farms of the lower Eel River .
The trains were pulled by Eureka Southern locomotives. On Saturday mornings, the "North Coast Daylight" passengers rode excursion buses from the San Francisco Bay area to Willits, where they boarded the train. The train followed the scenic Eel River Valley north to Eureka (a route never served by the original Southern Pacific Daylight trains).
San Francisco and Alameda Railroad: San Francisco Bay Railroad: SP: 1868 1869 Western Pacific Railroad: San Francisco Belt Railroad: SFB 1969 1993 N/A San Francisco and Colorado River Railroad: SP: 1883 1887 South Pacific Coast Railway: San Francisco and Eureka Railway: NWP 1903 1907 Northwestern Pacific Railroad: San Francisco and Humboldt Bay ...
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #12; shipped to Eureka in 1911 for construction through the Eel River canyon; [1] reboilered 1917 scrapped 1937 [9] 20 Rogers Locomotive Works 4-4-0: 1884 3306 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #13; used in passenger service between Sausalito and Duncan Mills; [1] reboilered ~1916 retired ...
On July 16, 1962, the SP's San Francisco Overland (TR 27-28) ended its long run as a separate San Francisco/Oakland to Ogden year-round daily train when that service was consolidated with the City of San Francisco except for occasional summer and holiday seasonal extra section runs of the Overland which service ended on January 2, 1964. [7] [8]
In an 1885 expulsion, the city of Eureka, Calif., put its Chinese residents on two ships and kept them out for seven decades. Now, the Eureka Chinatown Project tells the story.
The TV Archive curates approximately 100 hours of archival footage donated by local film makers and politicians from Northern California. These include the Willie Brown (politician) Collection, which features news reports and programs relating to the former State Assembly Speaker and Mayor of San Francisco's career and the Dorothy Goldner Collection, which features silent, color film of the ...