Trains in the Mission
Unfinished History
Southern Pacific's San Jose Railroad chugging through the Mission District, c. 1920
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Railroad right of way visibly curving through lower Noe Valley (part of which has been affectionately dubbed "La Lengua" by blogger Burrito Justice) in this early 1940s aerial image.
Photo: San Francisco Planning Department
Train on bridge near Dolores Street, 1908.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Railroad passing Bernal Cut, 1908.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
United Railroads carbarn and trolley on Mission near 29th Street, 1937.'
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco
Southern Pacific train running on Harrison Street near 21st, 1905.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
29th & Dolores Sts., apx. 1902, railroad bridge in background.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
The actual route of the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad through Noe Valley - 1873
Photo: David Rumsey Collection