YESTERYEAR DEPOT COLLECTION

SAN JUAN/PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
SAN JUAN SOUTHERN/SAN JUAN CEMENT PLANT
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 The above 1907 map indicates three separate railroad
 operations, all part of a line soon to run from San
 Francisco to Bakersfield California.  It was to make
 connections to the Western Pacific coming through
 Pacheco Pass, the Ocean Shore coming south from
 San Francisco, and the San Juan Southern headed
 south down the Salinas valley.  Unforunately, this
 map did not take into consideration the Earthquake
 of 1906, the Financial Panic of 1907, and the worst
 recorded storms of 1908 to ever hit California.

 


SJP 4-4-0 #208

 Image, San Juan Pacific Railway 4-4-0 #208
   Order No. SJP208I

 The year is 1907 at Chittenden, California.  The local
 San Juan Pacific Railway passenger train waits at the
 Southern Pacific interchange Junction for the morning
 San Francisco bound connection.  If you look to the far
 right up the tracks you can see the train approaching.
 Originally from the Francis J. Carney Collection, 1977.
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SJP 4-4-0 #208 "view A"

 Image, San Juan Pacific Rwy #208 at Pajaro,
   Order No. SJP208AI

 Two San Juan Pacific Railway employees look over the
 mechanics of the Company's only engine just north of
 the Pajaro River Bridge, about a half mile from
 Chittenden, California.  Engine 208 was former Southern
 Pacific #1313.
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San Juan Cement Plant workcar

 Photo, Carter Bro's modified narrow gauge Car
   Order No. SJCARTERP

 Phoographer: Fred C. Stoes

 This San Juan Cement Plant narrow gauge caboose, built on
 an old Carter Brothers 10-ton flatcar, sits in the Company
 yard at San Juan Bautista.  The line was about seven miles
 long and operated up San Juan Canyon to the Company quarry
 from about 1908 until the early 1970's.  Circa 1940.
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