Series XXIX: Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco

This series consists of photographs of the Southern Pacific's facilities in San Francisco, California. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 34, are referred to by the letter Q in testimony, and were taken by S. Vickers. Mr. Vickers was employed as a locomotive engineer by the Southern Pacific, and was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 161. The Southern Pacific was a class I railroad in the western United States. It covered a vast territory, with lines stretching from New Orleans through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles; from Los Angeles up the West Coast through San Francisco and Sacramento to Portland, Oregon; from Chicago through St. Louis to Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas; and from San Francisco through Nevada to Ogden, Utah. The Sunset Route, between New Orleans and Los Angeles, went through El Paso, Tucson and Phoenix, with a branch line heading south into Mexico at Nogales. This series documents the SP Passenger Yard and the Bayshore Yard, the main yard for the city of San Francisco. The photographs also document train movements over city streets at night and industries served by the SP in the San Francisco area.