South Pacific Coast Railroad records
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Title: South Pacific Coast Railroad records
Dates: 1881-1887
Collection Number: MS 318
Creator/Collector:
South Pacific Coast Railroad
Extent: 1 folder + 1 volume
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Record of equipment and expense bills.
Language of Material: English
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Scope and Content of Collection
Expense bill, 1881, and a record of equipment volume, 1887. This volume contains information on the equipment of the Southern
Pacific's standard and narrow gauge subsidiary, the South Pacific Coast. The portion on locomotives gives the number, date
in service, class, total weight and remarks, including disposition of the railroad's engines. The portions on rolling stock
give the number, date in service, class, capacity and remarks, including disposition, of the line's passenger, freight and
work cars. The volume is arranged in the following order:
•Floating equipment: passenger ferry steamers
•Locomotives (narrow gauge)
•Locomotives (standard gauge)
•Passenger cars: baggage (narrow gauge), coach (narrow gauge), combination (narrow gauge), chair (narrow gauge), parlor (narrow
gauge), coach, 1st and 2nd class (standard gauge), baggage and passenger (standard gauge and narrow gauge), baggage and mail
(standard gauge and narrow gauge), baggage (standard gauge and narrow gauge), electric motor coaches (standard gauge), electric
motor coach trailers (standard gauge)
•Freight cars: box (narrow gauge), flat, 10 tons (narrow gauge), flat, 15 tons (narrow gauge), caboose (narrow gauge and
standard gauge), box, 25 tons (standard gauge), box, 30 tons (standard gauge), flat, 40 tons (standard gauge), box, 40 tons
(standard gauge), flat, 25 tons (standard gauge), flat, 30 tons (standard gauge), logging (standard gauge)
•Work cars: pile driver (narrow gauge), derrick tender (narrow gauge), streetcars (narrow gauge), station (narrow gauge),
maintenance of way (narrow gauge), tool (standard gauge), derrick tenders (standard gauge), tool (standard gauge), boarding
(standard gauge), roadway flat (standard gauge), water (standard gauge)
•The volume also contains an envelope with summaries of rolling stock and floating equipment for the years 1910 and 1921-1927,
a comparison of equipment owned in 1887 and 1909, and a list of equipment laid aside in 1922.