hadn't turned been nurtured gold was discovered in the rich hills of california they also came by sea in sailing ships around the horn with the lights of adventure in their eyes and the gold fever in their veins some one some lost in the month away but many stayed and helped to build a new empire in the west messages on the scene of one of the worst disasters in the history of the country and the people of san francisco are people who were to rebuild their city to a statue of world prominence chose to do their walking in the streets rather than thousands of san francisco and found a haven a new homes in the east bay or one of the less most colorful characters or x men of twenty mil team fame and come to found the key routes to provide transportation adequate to the needs of the area in which the realized transportation along which flows the lifeblood of modern civilization had indeed brought growth and progress and the sunny side of the bay took its rightful place as one of the leading communities in the nation transportation to san francisco was by ferry a convivial mode of travel of that particular ending in the evening had elements of fantasy and generated a sense of adventure that even the meek could enjoy many a commuter a dream se symbolized another triumph for courage an enterprise another step in the parade of progress the bridge was built with a second levels to accommodate the most modern into urban trains in operation anywhere controlled at each end of the bridge by a tower that houses the switches relays and circuits and make up the nerve centers of one of the most efficient plant control and the metropolitan area of the train draws its power from overhead wire through pantograph but on the bridge the power is picked up from a third rail and so issue which has been folded against the side of the train is trip inside the cab the motorman controls the speed of this train in response to the panel which indicates thirty five miles an hour at this point they send a caterer as part of an elaborate safety system worked i mean to be electrical impulses carried through the rail if the motor man were to disregard the speed indicated on the panel control of the train of the automatically thinking away from them there has never been a train collision on a brand since it began to use at the nineteen thirty nine a machine shop where the great lady and the expert machinist the people trying to put the money this is part of one of the garages where the motor coaches are checked every twenty four hours and completely serviced every five hundred miles washing is made easier when you have a deal like this and you'd be surprised how dirty they get after being on the road all day or what do they have to be kept looking fresh there's a certain pride in the fact that this is one of the few locally owned locally and then pearl harbor every state in the union to help responded with the spirit that smashed production records wide open many system employees like everyone else were called into the armed services and so in an area of critical labor shortages this company became the first in the country to train women to help in the vital task of carrying people on their every day affair to and from their work schools and churches in an area that suddenly acquired several hundred thousands of new population these girls serve their country and the necessary field of transportation hours to build the same use of war and transportation to get them on the job but the equipment that serves the needs of our community in peacetime became overburdened and sadly inadequate for the demands of war the richmond shipyard rail way  good example of the way initiative a no like one of the country's not as transportation road was built and run by key system by the united states maritime commission new cards steel rails were impossible to get the stuff to the boys who finished the job but with all the extra work he system couldn't think like its regular job thousands of people who had been able to jump in the family car to help you remember gas rationing and there are two more good looking customers do you know all in one lawyer here the motor coaches alone carried more than seventy one million people watched that they were on your coach those were the days and these activities didn't stop at the daylight hours twenty four hour working schedule required transportation to fit some of the tools of peace were stretched a little further to meet the needs of war and went on working through the night and serving  if we can raise dedicate ourselves to the greater task of building a lasting peace we know what our job is to serve this great area better than ever to play our part and its growth and progress and we shall do it the time to catch up on the gossip and chewing gum back of course are still some bottleneck and some rubber spice and coffee smell again one of the busiest interstates handset lines in the world safely delivers another train a little passengers the busiest from an america bay some of the boys are pretty fine head we are aiming at perfection and plan to give you the smoothest swiftest safest transportation possible we're going to go ahead  i want to please stop interrupting get out before i have to use a fly swatter