Comments on: Mission Railroad http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: johnny0 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3362 johnny0 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:06:05 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3362 A history lesson from old maps as how the Mission racecourses affected the layout of the railway, along with Google Earth layers I made of zinzin’s 18th St creek.

]]> By: Noe Valley, SF http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3361 Noe Valley, SF Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:32:38 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3361 Here’s a link to the old waterways of San Francisco:
http://www.museumca.org/creeks/images/TopoSFCreeks.jpg

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3360 zinzin Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:27:49 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3360 very cool. there’s lots of history in the hood.

most of it was a lake, everyone knows that, right?

18th street was a river. you can see it’s a low point as you walk south on guerrero (it’s also why my 3rd floor flat at 18th & guerrero was always hot as blazes in the summer). apparently the river has lots of abattoirs all along it so the…effluvia could flow into the river.

this is an interesting book:

http://www.amazon.com/Franciscos-Mission-District-Images-America/dp/0738546577/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232825085&sr=8-3

sorry the link isnt from a more independent, community based bookseller that hand scribes tomes on 3000 year old papyrus and sells them for $800. oh, wait, i think they have that version at paxton gate.

]]> By: Mission on the Web 01.23.09 | Mission Loc@l http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3359 Mission on the Web 01.23.09 | Mission Loc@l Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:20:41 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3359 [...] Mission Mission also points us to a map of the old Mission railroad. Nice work, [...]

]]> By: Neo Displacer http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3358 Neo Displacer Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:49:24 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3358 The weird angled lots and parallelogram buildings puzzled me for years. The tracks along Harrison we’re still there as late as 96 I think, but I never quite understood the connection between the long straight line of Harrison and the weird lots of Treat, Shotwell, and Guerrero. One day I was at Big Nate’s on Folsom and looked over an old map they have. There it was plain as day, a RR that sliced diagonally across the Mission. If this interests you, go over to Nate’s and look at the map.

]]> By: Ted Rheingold http://www.missionmission.org/2009/01/23/mission-railroad/#comment-3357 Ted Rheingold Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:08:21 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=2312#comment-3357 Awesome. Thx.

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