Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, California. John Schmale, Kristina Schmale

Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, California



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Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, California John Schmale, Kristina Schmale ebook
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Page: 128
ISBN: 9780738559599

With a schedule regulated by the tides and the needs of chickens, the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway operated for 81 years as a delightfully quirky egg-hauling enterprise. Modern electric railroad technology paired with ancient low-tech steamboats made possible the overnight shipping of fresh produce to a voracious San Francisco market. The railroad helped Petaluma earn the moniker "the egg basket of the world." Incorporated in 1903, the railroad provided efficient train service to this fertile farm region. The famous botanist Luther Burbank located his experimental farm near Sebastopol and proclaimed it is nature's "chosen spot of all the earth." The railroad survived the devastating 1906 earthquake, opposition from

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