A guide to the Southern Pacific Ferry agreement, 1914-1946
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A Guide to the Southern Pacific Ferry agreement
HDC0373
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service2018, National Park Service
Title: Southern Pacific Ferry agreement
Date: 1914-1946
Date (bulk): 1924-1926, 1934-1937
Identifier/Call Number: HDC0373 (SAFR 17562)
Creator:
Unknown
Physical Description:
2 linear ft.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Southern Pacific Ferry Agreement (SAFR 17562, HDC0373) contains a series of contracts, reports, specifications, city maps,
and statistics used in negotiating pacts between the Southern Pacific Ferry Division, the California Bridge Authority, and
other ferry lines. Many of the agreements were filed with the California Railroad Commission. This collection also contains
several California Railroad Commission report, and includes approximately 25 blueprints of vessels and bridges (some located
on rolls). Available for use.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], HDC0373 (SAFR 17562), Southern Pacific Ferry agreement, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-00001
Transferred from Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1988.
Historical or Biographical Note
No history prepared
The Southern Pacific Ferry Agreement (SAFR 17562, HDC0373) contains a series of contracts, reports, specifications, city maps,
and statistics used in negotiating pacts between the Southern Pacific Ferry Division, the California Bridge Authority, and
other ferry lines. Many of the agreements were filed with the California Railroad Commission. This collection also contains
several California Railroad Commission report, and includes approximately 25 blueprints of vessels and bridges (some located
on rolls). Available for use.
Following is a synopsis of the folder contents.
Folder #1: California Railroad Commission report (case #2041), Valuation of the property of Southern Pacific Company, used
in Oakland vehicular ferry service, as of December 31, 1924.
Folder #2: California Railroad Commission report (case #2041, 1925), Report on service and operation, Southern Pacific Company,
vehicular ferry service.
Folder #3: Agreement between California Toll Bridge Authority and Key System (draft of December 9, 1934), filed with the California
Railroad Commission.
Folder #4: Key System's response to list of ten points dated January 18, 1935.
Folder #5: Response of Southern Pacific Company and Interurban Electric Railway Company to propositions "[regarding bridge
railway operating agreements](1935).
Folder #6: Agreement between Southern Pacific Company and Interurban Electric Railway Company respecting ferry boat service
across San Francisco Bay during pre-bridge period (1936).
Folder #7: Agreement between Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Central Pacific Railway Company,
Southern Pacific Coast Railway Company, and Interurban Electric Railway Company, respecting use of electric railway properties
in Alameda County, California and lease of certain electric line rolling stock (1936). This agreement contains 14 area property
maps.
Folder #8: Agreement between Southern Pacific Company and Interurban Electric Railway Company respecting Ferry Boat service
across San Francisco Bay during pre-bridge period (1936).
Folder #9: Agreement between Southern Pacific Company and Interurban Electric Railway Company respecting Ferry Boat service
across San Francisco Bay during pre-bridge period (1936).
Folder #10: Agreement between California Toll Bridge Authority and Interurban (1936).
Folder #11: Agreement between California Toll Bridge Authority and Key System (1936).
Folder #12: Agreement between California Toll Bridge Authority and Interurban (1936).
Folder #13: Trust indenture for bond issues, printed manuscript (1935).
Folder #14: Toll Bridge Authority file: Disadvantages of the Reber Plan" (August 1946); charts of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge; Bay bridge specifications; Bay Bridge statement of revenues and expenses; A study of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge by Columbia Steel Company; bridge and ferry exhibits.
Folder #15: Annual report by the American Toll Bridge company (1931); report on the distribution of automobile traffic on
the Carquinez bridge, Antioch bridge, and Martinez-Benecia ferry by the American Toll Bridge Company (1938); Golden Gate Bridge
traffic tabulation (1937); Antioch bridge operating results from date of opening (1926) through 1937; geographic zones used
in tabulation of bridges and ferry traffic checks attached; proposed fender construction blueprints of Carquinez bridge.
Folder #16: Miscellaneous papers, including: a publication titled The application of the Great Northern and the Western Pacific
for permission to connect their two railroads (1922); charts; Golden Gate Bridge tabulation of traffic (1937); valuation of
the South San Francisco belt railway (1914); related to this folder series are two rolls (#149 and #150) containing six blueprints
of various Bay Area bridges.
Folder #17: Southern Pacific Company work papers from case #2041, auto ferries; Southern Pacific Company trans-bay ferry and
rail service segregation of the San Francisco-Oakland-Richmond facilities used in trans-bay vehicular ferry service, 1925.
Folder #18: Southern Pacific Company case #2041, auto ferries, draft of service report.
Folder #19: Southern Pacific Company work papers from case #2041: traffic handled on vehicle ferries reports (1924, 1925).
Folder #20: California Railroad Commission report (#12673): Golden Gate ferry application " Analysis of Alameda vehicular
situation (1926); Investment in property and equipment revenues, expenses, and operation (1926); notes.
Folder #21: California Railroad Commission report (#12673): Application from Golden Gate Ferry company for vehicular ferry
at Alameda, 1926 (work papers, exhibit, specifications, maps, miscellaneous)
Folders #22 -24: Golden Gate San Rafael Ferry Company application #14310, application for ferry service between San Francisco
and Point San Quentin (1928). Contains work papers, reports, charts, exhibits and studies.
Folder #25: Specification for construction of a steel ferry boat for San Francisco-Oakland terminal railways.
Folder #26: see oversized folders
Oversized folders: 13 blueprints and one (1) photo stat print on paper from the naval architect firm of Hibbs, McCauley, and
Smith.
26 file units in 2 boxes, 2 rolls, 2 oversized folders
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Contracts
Bridges--Design and construction
Ferries
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
California Toll Bridge Authority (1926-1978)
Railroad Commission of the State of California
Specifications
Maps
Agreements
reports
Statistics