Bridge Railway
The Transbay Terminal was built as the San Francisco terminus for the electric commuter trains of the Southern Pacific, the Key System and the Sacramento Northern railroads, which ran on the south side of the lower deck of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. The SP and Sacramento Northern trains ceased service across the Bay in 1941 only two years after the Terminal was completed. The Key trains ran until April 1958, after which the tracks were removed from the terminal and replaced with pavement for use primarily by the buses of the publicly owned successor of the Key System, AC Transit.
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