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<h1>Interurban Electric Railway (Southern Pacific)</h1> <table width="330" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><p align="center"><a href="http://www.oberail.org/photo/73/7/g"><img src="http://www.oberail.org/resize.php?id=73&w=330&h=185" alt="red train at heinz avenue" width="330" height="185" border="1" /></a></p> <p align="center"><strong>Heinz Avenue (near Ashby) and 9th Street in Berkeley.<br /> <em>Unknown Collection; photographer unknown </em> </strong></p></td> </tr> </table> <p>The Southern Pacific's "steam locals" provided the first transbay service from the East Bay to San Francisco. Steam engines chuffed down Adeline in Berkeley to the pier in west West Oakland. Once the [link key_system Key System] was formed in 1903, the Southern Pacific had a hard time competing with the clean and fast trains run by the Key System. To better compete, the Southern Pacific converted its steam local lines to electric lines, which began operation in 1905. People later nicknamed the Southern Pacific's trains the "Red Cars" because of the large red cars (like the one to the left) that were used after the conversion to electric operations.</p> <p>Southern Pacific Electric trains, along with the Key System and [link sacramento_northern Sacramento Northern], began to operate on the [link bay_bridge Bay Bridge] on January 15, 1939. Due to the bridge operations, the system changed its name to the Interurban Electric Railway (IER). The IER stopped running trains in 1941 along with the Sacramento Northern. Many of the cars from the IER were sent to [link los_angeles Los Angeles] for service on the Pacific Electric until the early 1960s.</p> <br clear="all" /> <h2>The Red Cars on the Bridge </h2> <h3><a href="../../map.php?id=7">Line 2: Bancroft Avenue to Dutton Avenue in San Leandro</a></h3> <h3><a href="../../map.php?id=14">Line 3: Stanford - Adeline - Shattuck - Thousand Oaks</a></h3> <h3><a href="../../map.php?id=8">Line 4: Encinal Avenue</a></h3> <h3><a href="../../map.php?id=9">Line 5: Ninth - Solano</a></h3> <h3><a href="../../map.php?id=10">Line 6: Lincoln Avenue</a></h3> <h2>Pre-Bridge Lines</h2> <h3>California Street Line </h3> <p style="line-height:0px;">[map] [thumbnails]</p> <h2>Related Books and Films</h2> <h3> Books:</h3> <p> <a href="http://www.railroadtrainbooks.com/item13359.ctlg">Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 - Donald Duke</a><br /> Red Trains in the East Bay (Interurban Special #65) - Robert S. Ford (1977)<br /> Red Trains Remembered (Interurban Special #75 - Robert S. Ford (1980)<br /> The Western Railroader:<br /> <ul> <li>Issue 199, Vol. 19, No. 7, May, 1956, IER "The Big Red Cars"</li> <li>Issue 318, Vol. 29, No. 7, July, 1966, IER Pictorial **</li> </ul> </p> <p> **In the latter issue of Western Railroader, some corrected picture captions are:<br /> p. 8, upper photo, Alcatraz and Adeline<br /> p. 10, lower photo, Testing the San Francisco terminal trackage.<br /> p. 16, upper photo, End of track at Dutton Ave. is shared by a Number 2, Seventh Street, local and a Number 7, Dutton Avenue Express. </p> </p> <h2>Films and Movies:</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.trainvideodepot.com/product_info.php?products_id=41">Electric Railways Around the Bay</a></h3> <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/whW8c1OpO54&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/whW8c1OpO54&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="385"></embed></object> <h2>Links</h2> <?php // open and query database $dbConn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD); mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $dbConn); $query_section2link = "SELECT * FROM `section2link` WHERE `section` LIKE 3"; $result_section2link = mysql_query($query_section2link); while ($recSection2link = mysql_fetch_array($result_section2link, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { $query_link = "SELECT * FROM `link` WHERE `id` LIKE '" . $recSection2link["link"] . "'"; $result_link = mysql_query($query_link); while ($recLink = mysql_fetch_array($result_link, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { print "<p class=\"linkitem\">\n"; print "\t<strong><a href=\"" . $recLink["url"] . "\">" . $recLink["title"] . "</a></strong><br />"; print $recLink["description"] . "<br />"; print "</p>\n"; } } mysql_free_result($result_link); mysql_close($dbConn); ?>

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