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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 99: Great Highway Railroad

Railroad tracks on the Great Highway? Emiliano Echeverria tells us when and why trains ran around Lake Merced and up Ocean Beach.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Nov 28, 2014

Outside Lands Podcast Episode 99: Great Highway Railroad Outside Lands Podcast Episode 99: Great Highway Railroad

(above) Sloat & 48th Ave, Feb 18, 1919

View west on Sloat Blvd to United Railroads 12-line streetcar #1729 at terminus at Great Highway. [1729-12-03 WB on Sloat at 48th Avenue 18 Feb 1919 URR 1729]

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