1543. C. P. R. R. Freight Steamer Thoroughfare Loaded with Cars. 1860 : 1870
1565. Railroad Ferry Steamer El Capitan. 1860 : 1870
1568. R. R. Freight Transfer Ferry-boat, Thoroughfare. 1860 : 1870
Central Pacific Railroad Oakland Wharf
Coal Bunkers Oakland Harbor
Grove Street terminal, looking west from the transit shed, 1935 Clyde Sunderland
Liberty Ship Bow, under construction Richmond, CA
Oakland Mole Aerial
Oakland Bridge Oakland & Alameda California
Oakland ship approaching pier
Passenger train of the Central Pacific Railroad on the Oakland Wharf ca. 1870
Pullman car with solidiers, WWII
Sailing ships and trains at long wharf soon after opening by Central Pacific, now Southern Pacific on January 16, 1871. CP brought trains of the first transcontinental RR into Oakland along 7th street to the first wharf in 1859(69), the wharf was located at Biggon’s Point, near site of the present (1930) Oakland Pier. the first wharf was built by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad Co which inaugurated Ferry and Rail service between SF and Oakland ( Broadway St on Sept 2 1863. The long wharf seen here was used for freight after Oakland Mole was opened January 22, 1882. the Long wharf was abandoned 1918-19
The Oakland hills were covered with a vast redwood forest known as the San Antonio Redwood, which had some of the largest trees on earth. Between 1842 and 1853 this forest was logged extensively to supply San Francisco with lumber. The area’s first steam sawmill was built on the edge of Montclair in 1850. A logging road from the mill, later Park Blvd., connecting to the wharf at the foot of 13th Avenue, where ships transported lumber to San Francisco from this estuary. This forest was gone by 1860.
Shows one of the electric trains on the Key Route.
The Oakland Ferry
The Port of Oakland’s Grove Street Pier opened in 1928 between Grove and Jefferson Streets, on the site of Municipal Dock No. 1
Train carrying tanks past the Grove Street Pier, 1943
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