South Pacific Coast Railway

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In May 1887 the South Pacific Coast Railway was formed by a consolidation[1] of the South Pacific Coast Railroad, the Bay & Coast Railroad, the Oakland Township Railroad, the Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad, the San Francisco and Colorado River Railroad, the Felton & Pescadero Railroad, and the Almaden Branch Railroad for the purpose of transferring these railroads to the ownership of Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington who later leased the SPCRwy to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

  1. 1 Daily Alta California, May 26, 1887, page 6