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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 7, 2014
Caption: Key Route Interpretative Panel
Additional Description: The intersection of 41st and Piedmont has been a public transportation hub for many years. Horse cars, electric streetcars and transbay electric trains all passed this intersection at one time or another. Key System streetcar routes ran boat Piedmont and Linda Avenues. Those electric cars were replaced by buses in June 1948. Transbay train service operated beginning in 1904 between Piedmont Station and the Key Route pier with a direct ferryboat connection to San Francisco. With a 1924 extension the electric trains ran up the hill to the city of Piedmont ending at Oakland Avenue and Latham Streets. In January 1939 trains began running across the lower deck of the Bay Bridge direct to San Francisco. The final train departed this corner for the city on April 19, 1958.

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Submitted: March 13, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p268061
File Size: 3.589 Megabytes

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