Name/Title
'Red Trains Remembered', by Robert S. Ford, 1980Entry/Object ID
2012.2.3Description
Acc. No. 12.2.3
Subject Category: Transportation, Trains – electric (trolleys), ferries
Date or Period: 1980
Object: book
Description: A hardbound book with original dust jacket, which has a sepia-tinted photographic image of a railway station, with an official on the platform and a train, with number ‘2’ approaching. Title: ‘Red Trains Remembered’, Author Robert S. Ford, printed by Interurbans, Glendale, CA, 1980. ISBN: 0-916374-44-0.
Size: L 8 1/2 x W 11 1/4 inches.
History of Object: a publication on the history of the so-called red trains of the Southern Pacific East Bay suburban train and ferry system. Chapters VI, VII, VII and XI contain details on the trains and XII on the ferries connecting to Alameda. Publication is illustrated with reproductions of historical photographs, many of which were provided by Alamedan Jack Gutte, who was inspector at the Alameda Mole and unofficial photographer of the system.
Donor: Estate of the late Edward Fowler
Cataloged: January 7, 2012
Catalog Completion Date: 10/17/2021
