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Key System: 1939

April 1939. "San Francisco, California, seen from the First Street ramp of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." Before BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) crossed the bay, there was the Key System. Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

April 1939. "San Francisco, California, seen from the First Street ramp of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." Before BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) crossed the bay, there was the Key System. Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

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While Key System trains with lettered routes and also Sacramento Northern Railroad trains did use these tracks to the Transbay Terminal, the photo shows a train of the 3rd user, the Southern Pacific RR's Interurban Electric Railway with numbered routes.

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