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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 .
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 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 ...
SS California was one of the first steamships to steam in the Pacific Ocean and the first steamship to travel from Central America to North America. She was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company which was founded on April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company in the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants: William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett, Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G ...
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).
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.
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 ...
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 ...