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Guide to the United Railroads of San Francisco records, 1866-1951 M0161
M0161
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: United Railroads of San Francisco records
Creator:
United Railroads of San Francisco
Identifier/Call Number: M0161
Identifier/Call Number: 1261
Physical Description:
19 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1866-1951
Language of Material:
English
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The collection includes record books, business and legal papers, financial papers, clippings, stock records, statistics, ledgers,
and so forth, of the above railway companies. It also includes annual reports of the Municipal Railway Co. for the years 1949-50
and 1950-51.
There are gaps in the top-level container numbering system due to a re-housing project. For instance there is no top-level
container 43 because volumes 42 and 43 are now in Box 42.
The United Railroads of San Francisco, as well as the Market Street Railway Company and the Municipal Railway Co., were all
aggregations of smaller street railway lines that provided urban transportation for San Francisco. Among these street railways
were the following: Sutter Sreet Railway Co., Sutro Railway Co., San Francisco & Alameda R.R. Co., and the South San Francisco
Railroad and Power Co.
The United Railroads of San Francisco was organized in March, 1902, with authorized capital stock of 40 million dollars mostly
owned by California Rail & Power Co. Because of its inability to pay matured indebtedness and interest on outstanding indebtedness,
it sold out to Market Street Cable Railway Co. in 1921. In 1944, the Municipal Railway of San Francisco (Muni) bought the
capital of the Market Street Railway Co.
[Identification of item] United Railroads of San Francisco records (M0161), Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Found among the Hopkins Transportation Library manuscripts.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Transportation -- History -- California
Railroads
Trains
Sutter Street Railroad
Market Street Railway Co.
Sutro Railway Co.
South San Francisco Railroad and Power Co.
San Francisco Municipal Railway.
San Francisco Electric Railroad.
San Francisco and San Mateo Railway Co.
San Francisco and Alameda Railroad Co.