Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Sacramento Southern Railroad records
Dates: 1905-1911
Collection Number: MS 145
Creator/Collector:
Sacramento Southern Railroad
Extent: 1 box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Includes financial records of Sacramento Southern from 1905-1911.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Capital District Collections Manager. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Sacramento Southern Railroad records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Financial records are a gift of Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection.
Biography/Administrative History
•Incorporated by Southern Pacific Company, July 8, 1903, 24.30 miles from Sacramento, south to Walnut Grove, constructed between
January 1906 and March 17, 1912. The road originally was projected from Sacramento to Stockton with one branch from Walnut
Grove to Antioch and another from the main line east to Woodbridge, about eight miles. Neither "branch" was built.
•The line, known as the Walnut Grove Branch, was controlled by the Southern Pacific Company, although title was transferred
to the Central Pacific Railway on February 29, 1912. The Sacramento Southern Railroad Company was dissolved on March 4, 1916.
An extension of 7.8 miles from Walnut Grove to Isleton was opened by the Southern Pacific Company on September 15, 1929, and
an additional three miles to the Mokelumne River was constructed in 1931, only to be abandoned in 1951. [Guy Dunscomb, A
CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 404]
Scope and Content of Collection
Financial records include a report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, circular 11, 1916, a balance sheet of the general
ledger for 1905, and a general account with the Southern Pacific Company (form 143) for 1906 to 1911.
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