North Pacific Coast Railroad
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North Pacific Coast Railroad
Reporting marks NPC
Locale Marin and Sonoma Counties, California
Dates of operation 1871–1907
Track gauge 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge); originally 3 ft (914 mm)
Headquarters Sausalito, California

The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier narrow gauge railroad in the northern California counties of Marin and Sonoma that carried redwood lumber, local dairy and agricultural products, express and passengers. The NPC operated almost 93 mi (150 km) of track that extended from a pier at Sausalito (which connected the line via ferry to San Francisco) and operated northwest to Duncans Mills and Cazadero (also known as Ingrams).

The NPC was sold to the North Shore Railroad on March 7, 1902. In 1907 the North Shore Railroad became part of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP). Southern portions of the line were standard gauged and electrified by the North Shore for suburban passenger service, though most of the trackage north of San Rafael remained 3 ft (914 mm) gauge until abandonment in the late 1930s.

All of the NPC trackage has been abandoned either by the NPC or the NWP. Some of the original right of way can be seen at the Samuel P. Taylor State Park near Fairfax, along the shore of Tomales Bay and Keyes Estuary and passenger depots remain in San Anselmo and Duncan Mills. One NPC steam locomotive, No.12 the "Sonoma," remains as a restored static exhibit in its circa 1870s appearance at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

North Pacific Coast Railroad tunnel near Keys Creek

Route

Inside the tunnel

Mileposts conform to Southern Pacific Railroad convention of distance from San Francisco1

Locomotives

Number Builder Type Date Works number Notes2
1 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0 1873 3495 sold to White Lumber Company 18763
2 Mason Machine Works 0-4-4T 1874 537 burned at Tomales 1905 & rebuilt became NWP #894
3 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1875 3722 became NWP #835
4 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1874 3629 wrecked 1894 & rebuilt became NWP #816
5 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1875 3703 dismantled by 18977
6 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1874 3664 leased to Dollar Lumber Company in 19038
7 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1875 3721 9
8 Mason Machine Works 0-6-6T 1877 584 burned at Tomales 190510
9 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1875 3749 wrecked 189411
10 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1876 3840 sold 1895 Guatemala Western #1
11 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1876 3842 became NWP #8212
12 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1876 3843 sold 1879 Nevada Central #5 (preserved at California State Railroad Museum)13
13 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0 1883 6611 became NWP #19514
14 Brooks Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1891 1885 became NWP #9215
15 Brooks Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1891 1886 became NWP #9016
16 Brooks Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1894 2421 became NWP #9117
17 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1875 3749 NPC 1894 rebuild of wreck-damaged #9 wrecked again in 190018
18 Brooks Locomotive Works 4-6-0 1899 3418 reputedly the largest 3-foot (0.91 m) gauge locomotive in the world when built became NWP #145 then #9519
20 NPC Sausalito shop 4-4-0 1900 1 became NWP #8420
21 NPC Sausalito shop 4-4-0 1901 2 cab-forward rebuild of #5 scrapped 190521
22 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0 1874 3664 former #6 returned from Dollar Lumber Company22

References

  • MacGregor, Bruce. Palo Alto, (2003.). The Birth of California Narrow Gauge.. Stanford University Press.. ISBN 0-8047-3550-6. 
  • Stindt, Fred. (1974.). Trains to the Russian River.. Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.. 
  • Stindt, Fred. Kelseyville and Modesto, (1964; 1982 Fourth Printing.). The Northwestern Pacific Railroad: Redwood Empire Route.. Dunscomb Press.. Library of Congress Catalog No.64-24033. 
  • Sievers, Wald and Stindt, Fred. (1969.). N.W.P. Narrow Gauge.. 
  • Dickinson, A. Bray (1974). Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods. Trans-Anglo Books. ISBN 0-87046-010-2. 
  1. ^ Stindt (1964) pp.88-89
  2. ^ Dickinson (1970) pp.132-133
  3. ^ Dickinson (1974) p.27
  4. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.27,72-74,108,110 & 155
  5. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.5,63,67,136 & 150
  6. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.10,68,87 & 148
  7. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.40 & 137
  8. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.70 & 134
  9. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.66-67,115 & 134
  10. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.50,134 & 156
  11. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.46 & 52
  12. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.88-89
  13. ^ Dickinson (1974) p.46
  14. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.55,80 & 116
  15. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.87,109.113,& 136
  16. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.76,109 & 137
  17. ^ Dickinson (1974) p.82
  18. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.70,96 & 120
  19. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.91 & 155
  20. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.2,92,107 & 114
  21. ^ Dickinson (1974) pp.93-94,115 & 156
  22. ^ Dickinson (1974) p.103
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