San Diego & Arizona Railway / Tijuana & Tecate Railway collection, 1906 - 1970

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection includes eports, charts, tables and photographs, magazine articles on the railroad, record of equipment and an index to job records.
Extent:
1 Linear Feet 1 oversize box + 1 half-box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], San Diego & Arizona Railway / Tijuana & Tecate Railway Collection, MS 59, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes eports, charts, tables and photographs, magazine articles on the railroad, record of equipment and an index to job records.

Biographical / historical:

Incorporated in 1906 by sugar magnate and land developer John Diedrich (1853-1926) Spreckels, the San Diego & Arizona Railway was built east from San Diego to El Centro in California's Imperial Valley. There it connected with a branch of the Southern Pacific.

Part of the San Diego & Arizona's route, from San Ysidro to near Tecate, ran through northern Baja California, Mexico, and was known as the Tijuana & Tecate Railway (Ferrocarril Tijuana y Tecate). The road was completed in 1919, and in 1932 was sold to the Southern Pacific by the Spreckels interests.

Southern Pacific operated it as the San Diego and Arizona Eastern. In 1970, Southern Pacific sold the Tijuana & Tecate to the Mexican government. A hurricane in 1976 damaged large portions of the remainder of the line, and Southern Pacific sought to abandon it. The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board currently controls the line.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lynn D. Farrar

Gift of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Processing information:

Former MS 10, MS 100 [freight fees]

Arrangement:

MS 59 is arranged into three series:

1. Reports

2. Equipment Records

3. Construction and Maintenance of Way Records

Physical location:
Statewide Museum Collection Center

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.

Terms of access:

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 CSRM Library & Archives. 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:

[Identification of item], San Diego & Arizona Railway / Tijuana & Tecate Railway Collection, MS 59, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:
111 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Contact:
(916) 323-8073
Library.CSRM@parks.ca.gov
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