The Key System: San Francisco and the Eastshore Empire (CA) (Images of Rail)
Here transportation historians Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria, authors of San Francisco's Powell Street Cable Cars, tell the story of these transbay lines in nearly 200 rare photographs. Included is the rolling stock--from the handsome 1903 wooden interurbans to the famous 1930s Bridge Units, the ornate Key Route Pier, the ferryboat fleet, and lastly the Bridge Railway into downtown San Francisco. Rice and Echeverria blend their insights, knowledge, and photographic resources to capture the spirit of the bygone Key System era that linked San Francisco to what was then known as the "Eastshore Empire."