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 in this early 1940s aerial image. Also notable is is the not-yet built location of Noe Valley Recreation Center on the west end of the block bounded by 30th, Sanchez, and Day Streets.
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