Sacramento Southern Railroad records

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

Abstract: Includes financial records of Sacramento Southern from 1905-1911.

Language of Material: English

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Sacramento Southern Railroad records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Financial records are a gift of Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection.

•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]

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.