Reference: "California Central Coast Railways" - Rick Hamman
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. Unfortunately for the San Juan Pacific weather, the years after the Financial Panic. and severe damage to the right-of-way and the Pajaro River Bridge would soon spell its demise. In 1911 the San Juan Pacific was sold to, and became, the California Central Railroad. It would continue on until 1930 providing freight service and then it too would fail during the Depression.
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SJP Opening Day
Image, Opening Day cerimonies, San Juan Pacific, 1908 Order No. SJP1STI Friday, August 30, 1907: The first 10-mile run of a San Juan Pacific train of digniataries and local folks from San Juna Junction to Chittenden, California has just occured. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------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. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------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. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SJP Passenger Train
Image, San Juan Pacific passenger train, San Juan Jct. Insufficient for reproduction, for reference only! In A San Juan Pacific railroad advertising phamplet was found this rare view of a passenger train waiting to leave San Juan Junction for San Juan, Prescott, Canfield, and Chittenden, California. --------------------Before SJP #208 - SP #1313
Image, Southern Pacific E9-class 4-4-0 #1313, 1900 Order No. SP1313I This locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific of Arizona as their No. 2 by Schenectady in 1879. In 1885 it became Southern Pacific #82. In 1891 it was renumbered as E9-class #1313. In 1908 it was sold to the San Juan Pacific as their #208. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------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. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Image, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------
