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several cattle cars to accommodate the estimated 700–800 passengers; that second train stopped briefly in San Mateo to take on fuel and water, and proceeded past waiting passengers at
Redwood City and Mountain View, arriving in Santa Clara by 12:45 PM. The two trains proceeded together to San Jose just after 1:00 PM, and were greeted by a thirteen-gun salute upon arrival. After several speeches by SF&SJ leaders and local dignitaries, a large barbecue was held, with the first return train departing around 4:00 PM, pulled by three locomotives, and the second return train departing around 9:00 PM.
286: (equivalent to $ 1,360,000 in 2023), based on a total cost of $ 2 million for 49.3 miles (79.3 km) of rail, comparable to the average cost per rail mile based on railroads built nationwide through 1861. However, the actual cash on hand was limited to the amount contributed by the three counties and approximately $ 100,000 from individual subscribers. With the Civil War consuming men and material, iron suppliers were only willing to deal with cash, not credit, and several members of the SF&SJ board of directors, including
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407:(SP) acquired the company in March 1868, and the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific were consolidated as the Southern Pacific on October 12, 1870, nearly seven years to the day after the first trains ran between San Francisco and Menlo Park. SP upgraded the line in the early 20th century by laying down a second track and building several alternative routes and shortcuts, including the
1108:. Its inaugural run was August 30, 1865, during which it set a speed record of 67 miles per hour (108 km/h). Union Iron works also built a similar 28-ton locomotive number 7 and the 18-ton switcher number 8 in 1865. Norris built two more SF&SJ locomotives weighing 26 tons and 28 tons in 1867, while McKay and Aldus of
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no more. Hereafter the citizens of San José and those of San
Francisco will be neighbors, while the little county of San Mateo extends one hand over the iron track to her proud city sister of San Francisco, and the other to her charming rural sister of Santa Clara, and enfolds them in an embrace that can never be broken.
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Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking
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Railroad was a momentous event in the economic history of California. It was one of the very few major enterprises not designed primarily to serve the needs of the miners. Therefore, the foremost concern of the promoters and investors had
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A few months later, the line to San Jose was completed on
January 16, 1864. The first train to San Jose departed at 9:55 AM and arrived in Santa Clara nearly three hours later after "liberal stopping periods" in San Mateo and Redwood City. The second train departed at 11:15 AM after adding
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SAN FRANCISCO & SAN JOSE RAILROAD Incorporated August 18, 1860. This road, 49.50 miles from San
Francisco to San Jose, California, was built between July 15, 1861 and June 6, 1864. The original line went from 16th and Valencia Streets in San Francisco through Bernal Cut to San Bruno (San Miguel
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The shrill whistle of the engine, and the rattling of the cars so lately heard in your beautiful valley for the first time, will be sounds familiar to your children and children's children, until the angel, with one foot upon the sea and the other upon the dry land, shall declare that time shall be
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The construction contractors (Houston & McLaughlin) agreed to be paid $ 2 million consisting of $ 500,000 in cash, $ 500,000 in county-issued bonds, $ 500,000 in mortgage bonds, and $ 500,000 in company stock in exchange for completing the line between San
Francisco and San Jose by October
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October 1864 the freight train (with passenger car attached) was leaving San Jose at 5am and arriving San Francisco at 8:50am; the return train leaving San
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Chinese railroad
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Grading and construction of the line began in Santa Clara county on July 15, 1861. The hardest part of construction was the cut at Bernal Hill in San
Francisco, which was being cut through at both ends in Spring 1862 in earnest with "heavy and continuous assaults of powder". After ten months of
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on October 17, 1863. The first train left Mission Station at approximately 10:30 AM; it consisted of six passenger cars, two baggage cars, and one freight car pulled by two locomotives and carried approximately 400 passengers. The train ran to the end of the line in Mayfield (in
208: (equivalent to $ 30,520,000 in 2023) in stock of the new company. This was portrayed in the news as "an attempted fraud upon the tax-payers of the counties" and the company dissolved in June 1860. A new SF&SJ incorporated on August 18, 1860 with San Francisco industrialist
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The railroad cut what had previously been an eight-hour trip by "steamboat and stagecoach" to three-and-a-half hours. In February 1864, the SF&SJ advertised regular passenger service on four trains per day, with the trip scheduled to take two hours, twenty minutes each way.
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163:. The company incorporated in 1860 and was one of the first railroads to employ Chinese laborers in its construction. It opened the first portion of its route in 1863, completing the entire 49.5-mile (80 km) route in 1864. The company was consolidated with the
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One of the earliest employment of Chinese for railroad building was on the construction of the California Central Railroad. ...Henry George asserted that Chinese laborers were also used in the construction of the San Jose Railroad in
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houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first obtaining local capital. The company reorganized on October 29, 1853, just before the expiration of the construction permit, and
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workers to keep cost down. Hiring Chinese in the early and mid 1860s was not controversial and garnered few notices, as it was a short period of time of less hostile anti-Chinese sentiments.
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Francisco 4:15pm and arriving San Jose 8:15pm. With the decline of placer mining, the completion of the railroad enabled the ascendancy of agriculture as a major new industry in California.
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San Mateo, U.S.A. : the golden years; an early background and sixty years of the city of San Mateo's history from its beginning at the Polhemus Plat in 1862 up through World War I
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rail line being built then east to Truckee. In order to preserve planned compatibility with transcontinental rail traffic, the line was laid at what is now
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1995:"San Jose Pioneer Describes Building of First Railroad From Bay City to This City"
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1855:"San Francisco and San Jose Railroad. Excursion Trains for Sunday, October 25"
1767:. San Jose weekly Mercury, Volume XII, Number 22, 6 October 1864. cdnc.ucr.edu
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1677:"THE FIRST RAIL LAID: Sacramento Daily Union, Tuesday, October 27, 1863"
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Pioneer shortline railroad from San Francisco to San Jose (1860-1870)
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1439:. Modesto, California: Modesto Printing Company. pp. 405–406.
1340:"A history of the Chinese in California: A syllabus. The railroads"
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Caltrain Centralized Equipment Maintenance and Operations Facility
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Will freight service continue to operate on the Caltrain Corridor?
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1739:"San Francisco And San Jose Railroad; Two Trains Daily, Each Way"
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1960:"The Peninsula: It is the playground of San Francisco Society"
1657:. Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 25, Number 3826, 26 June 1863
1599:. Marysville Daily Appeal, Volume V, Number 139, 11 June 1862
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Predecessors of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
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1401:"Grand Celebration of the Opening of the San Jose Railroad"
151:(SF&SJ) was a railroad which linked the communities of
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A century of Southern Pacific steam locomotives, 1862–1962
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A California Legend: The Newhall Land and Farming Company
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Chinese labor in California, 1850-1880: An economic study
1170:, E. F. Northam, Charles B. Polhemus, and Edward Martin.
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Map of the northern end of the SF&SJ Railroad (1862).
359:, Speech at the inauguration of service, January 16, 1864
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Best, Gerald M. (1954). "San Francisco & San Jose".
1831:. Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. March 1, 2017.
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Rancho) and thence via the present location to San Jose.
2025:. San Francisco: B.F. Alley. 1883. pp. 231–237.
1573:. Sonoma Democrat, Volume IV, Number 40, 18 July 1861
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1519:The Economic Aspect of the Chinese Labor Problem
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2225:. Vol. 26, no. 4003. January 20, 1864
2205:. Vol. 15, no. 4981. October 18, 1863
2145:. Vol. 2, no. 282. September 20, 1851
2055:. San Mateo: San Mateo Bicentennial Committee.
1861:. Vol. 15, no. 4987. October 24, 1863
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1407:. Vol. 16, no. 5070. January 17, 1864
1061:, number 8, all SF&SJ locomotives were the
2165:. Vol. 5, no. 326. November 25, 1854
2125:. Vol. 2, no. 270. September 8, 1851
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2119:"San Jose and San Francisco Railroad"
2075:"Central Park and The Kohl Pumphouse"
1905:. Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation. 2000
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1924:Fredricks, Darold (April 26, 2010).
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1241:List of defunct California railroads
1081:. The third locomotive was built in
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2219:"San Jose Railroad Completed"
2179:"San Francisco and Railroads"
2001:. San Jose. December 15, 1902
1789:Robertson, Donald B. (1998).
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1233:San Francisco Bay Area portal
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1903:"About Henry Mayo Newhall"
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1593:"THE SAN JOSE RAILROAD"
1491:"The San Jose Railroad"
1075:Norris Locomotive Works
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2159:"San Jose Railroad"
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1799:: Caxton Printers.
1745:. February 19, 1864
1547:Chiu, Ping (1963).
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