Title: North Shore Railroad Company papers

Dates: 1903-1906

Collection Number: MS 609

Creator/Collector: North Shore Railroad

Extent: 2 boxes

Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Abstract: This collection includes financial documents from the North Shore Railroad Company.

Language of Material: English

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North Shore Railroad Company papers. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Gift of the Southern Pacific Company.

The North Shore Railroad Company was incorporated on January 11, 1902. In 1902, the company purchased the entire property of the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company, consisting of 92.61 miles of narrow gauge road in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Almost immediately the North Shore began to electrify the line to serve municipalities contiguous to San Francisco Bay. This work involved the reconstruction of these sections to provide for operation of narrow gauge steam equipment and standard gauge electric equipment, by adding a third running rail. The North Shore Railroad Company became part of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company (effective January 8, 1907).

This collection includes financial statements and general manager's orders, including information about construction projects, betterments, earnings, expenses, and payroll. The Statement of Accounts may include various forms gathered together into a single document that may include: Comparative statement of income and expenditure; Trial balance; General balance sheet; Construction expenditures (Form 269); Betterments: Capital account; Betterments: Chargeable to income; Suspense items (to be charged as directed); Extraordinary expenses included in operating expenses; Earnings and expenses (Form 161); Passenger statistics (Form 33); Freight forwarded from stations; Freight received at stations (Form 272); Classification of freight (Form 5); Statement of material and fuel on hand (Form 444); Force report (Form 6); Exhibit of operations (Form 405); Operating power plant; North Shore Land Company operations. Separate copies of the above forms have been organized alphabetically by form type and put in chronological order. The collection also includes Form 16, Requisition for Construction and Repair Work and General Manager's Order which documents requests for work to be done to specific locomotives, rolling stock, boats and structures.