SF BAY AREA RAILROAD STORY THEY WANTED BURIED!

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Ай бұрын

This is one section of a longer DVD production featuring many forgotten Bay Area times. Visit www.cspmovies.com for this DVD and many more.
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See the Key System from 1945 and the end of WW II that brought the National City Lines 'buy out'. See the last 13 years of a great transit line that struggled to maintain quality service in a world of change. We review the NCL and compare its control of the Key System to the LA Railway and others. See the last few years of the Key's subsidiary streetcar lines that were ripped out after 1948. Visit the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco and ride the Bay Bridge.
Visit and ride through the Bridge Yard and recall the Key's great fleet of Bridge Units connecting th great East Bay and San Francisco! Run through the Emeryville Yard and watch trains spill past the tower. See great trains in a wealth of locations in a bygone era on all the Bridge lines A through F. Don't miss the action with freight trains down 40th street from Sacramento Northern's connection to the C line and the Oakland Terminal Railway. The F line's "City of Berkeley" Key train of the former SN Ry cars is just one of he delights to see on the Berkeley Line! The C line in Piedmont and Oakland Ave offers the beauty of the East Bay. Sixteen people shot film that made this video possible for you to see! Their efforts allow to relive those wonderful days!
To quote Model Railroader "This is a large helping of trains and 1 hour and 02 minutes! As usual, Charles Smiley gives us a lot to enjoy. He still operates the premiere video recovery system around, and gives us footage that has been cleaned up. brightened, sharpened and smoothly edited."

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@johnchambers8528 Ай бұрын

Thanks for showing what used to be. I live in the Philadelphia, PA area. Our city transit system used to be PTC in the 1950’s till it was taken over by the National City Lines and many of the streetcar lines were converted to buses. We were fortunate in that our two railroad operated suburban train systems operated by the Reading Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad were electrically operated and most are still in existence under our regional transit authority SEPTA. In the city the subway-surface trolley system still exists as well as one surface trolley line. SEPTA also took over several suburban transit companies and on the Red Arrow system still operates two suburban trolley lines that run mostly on private right of way as well as one third rail grade separated interurban type system. At least in the Bay Area they did recreate some of the lost transit by building the BART rail system as well as saving the MUNI line trolley system.

@michaelsmiley15 Ай бұрын

There are a few of us who have reminded ourselves of what it used to be like Do not get me started on that hulk of a terminal

@kirknitz3794 Ай бұрын

And the irony for the Los Angeles area is that what was largely the Red Line has been restored as the light rail. The predecessor to the MTA in Los Angeles was a major player in the destruction of the Red Line. I remember seeing the trolley cars stacked in Los Angeles harbor prior to be shipped overseas to be scrapped.

@robinrosenberg9065 Ай бұрын

I rode the Key System in the 1950's. A wonderful Inturban.

@stickynorth Ай бұрын

If you ask me streetcars need to be expanded across the Bay area again... Modern battery-electric models are now more quiet and comfortable than ever and could do the job effortlessly...

@TohaBgood2 Ай бұрын

Yep. SF retained its streetcar network and is expanding it. San Jose let it wither but built it back up again since the 80s. Even freaking Marin county brought back their interurban in the form of SMART. Only Oakland keeps making plans to bring back the streetcars again and again in the form or modern light rail but the politicians keep messing it up! We need to bring the streetcars back in Oakland!

@EllieMaes-Grandad Ай бұрын

Some mention of route-setting and control would be interesting, as well as power generation and distribution. Unseen and unappreciated, but absolutely essential factors.

@jamesmiller4184 Ай бұрын

I lived in the area at this time and recall much of this. There was a tunnel going under the bay that we took. I recall always being most uneasy while under water, fearing what would happen if it should ever break! Also I remember traveling from Oakland (1948) to San Fran by rail. Was there such a thing operating then, underneath the Oakland Bay Bridge? Everything about living in that area I recall with much fondness, 'till moving to Portland in '52.

@charlessmileyvideo Ай бұрын

There was a short "Tube" from Oakland to Alameda but not a one under the bay to SF until BART was built much later.

@jamesmiller4184 Ай бұрын

@@charlessmileyvideo Aha! Sure. Thank you. A little boy's perception of so long a time ago, might well make for such a confusion much later. Your work here is most interesting (and provocative of nice memories) as well as valuable.

@user-uo7fw5bo1o Ай бұрын

If you ask me, Caltrans should have built a tunnel for the trolleys from the East Bay to the Transbay Terminal before retrofitting the bridge for interstate route I-80.

@charlessmileyvideo Ай бұрын

Well Key System founder, Borax Smith, proposed that bay-tube around 1915 (IIRC). People laughed. Go figure. BART made the tube decades later.

@sanaecoachiya200 Ай бұрын

How was this color film taken?

@Tony-1950 Ай бұрын

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@currentbatches6205 Ай бұрын

Mass transit, especially rail (fixed routes), was destined to fail as soon as Henry put the first T on the road. Imagine the simple act of bringing home groceries, for pete's sake!

@sek153 Ай бұрын

that's a dumb statement. You think everyone can drive huh?

@currentbatches6205 Ай бұрын

@@sek153 I had hopes that most folks were capable of thought, but then you showed up.

@TohaBgood2 Ай бұрын

That's idiotic. The only reason why the car won was that we were and are subsidizing it like crazy. As soon as the subsidies stop all your highways are gone. They burn money like crazy and we're all getting pretty tired of subsidizing your 3 tonn "truck" that has never seen a hard day's work in its life!

@currentbatches6205 Ай бұрын

@@TohaBgood2 Simply, that is hogwash. You have no idea what you're posting about, and I'm not going to waste time attempting to explain.

@TohaBgood2 Ай бұрын

@@currentbatches6205 Lol, sure! It's not like what I said is extensively documented and widely known. While your oil lobby propaganda is not just made up crap that you refuse to back up. Tell me, how are ostensibly free highways supposed to be maintained from the pennies that you send to the government in gas taxes every year? Why do we need to pass multi-trillion dollar "road and bridge" bills in Congress every 20-30 years if your pennies pay for highway maintenance? Why are all your money losing highways perpetually in disrepair? Why?