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This website is based on the Planning Report created by SJSU Urban & Regional Planning graduate student Joe Romani in completion of his MUP degree in 2023.
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Interviews
Interview with Adine Levin, 2020.
Interview with Curt Hoppins, 2020
Interview with Drew Smith, 2019.
Interview with Eileen McLaughlin, 2022.
Interview with Emma Shales, 2021.
Interview with Geenie Moore, 2020.
Interview with Matt Brown, 2019.
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- SamTrans Meeting Notes
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A particularly vital source of information for this study are the notes from meetings convened by SamTrans and other partners in December 2019 / January 2020, which have since been removed from the website where they were originally publicly posted. They are included here at the following link. Note that neither this website nor the underlying research and report produced by Joe Romani were requested, sanctioned, or otherwise endorsed by SamTrans or any other stakeholders.
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- Bridge Specifications
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Design: Pratt-through truss with a central swing. Pennsylvania through truss span with timber trestle (east and west spans)
Length: 8,058 feet (Dumbarton Bridge). 1,390 feet (Newark Slough Bridge)
Designer: William Hood
Start: 1907
End: June 1910
Cost: $3,500,000 ($101, 800,000 2021)
Closed: 1982
Burned Down: 1998 (Dumbarton Bridge, Suspected Arson). 2019 (Newark Slough Bridge, suspected arson)
Dunscomb, G. L. (1963). A century of Southern Pacific steam locomotives, 1862-1962. Modesto, Calif.
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- Timeline
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1840
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad was formed to build a railroad linking San Francisco and San Jose and ultimately failed.
1857
A second attempt at a railroad linking San Francisco and San Jose was called the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (again rejected by the public).
1864, December 11th
Central Pacific Railroad reaches the Sierra Nevada.
1860
Judge Timothy Dame and Henry Newhall formed a railroad company called the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad.
1861, June 28th
Central Pacific Railroad was Incorporated.
1861, July 15th
Construction on the San Francisco and San Jose railroad begins.
1862, July 1st
Union Pacific Railroad incorporated.
1862, July 1st
President Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act.
1863, October 17th
San Francisco and San Jose Railroad began limited service to Palo Alto.
1863, October 26th
Central Pacific lays their first rails in Sacramento.
1864, January 16th
San Francisco and San Jose Railroad begin service to San Jose.
1865
Southern Pacific Formed.
1865, July 10th
Union Pacific Railroad lays its first rails near Council Bluffs, Iowa.
1869, May 10th
Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869, September 6th
First, trains reach Alameda, Ca.
1870
Southern Pacific Railroad begins Peninsula Commute.
1885, February 17th
The new company formed “The Southern Pacific” to oversee the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
1988
San Mateo County Transit Agency was formed by Measure A to manage a 1/2 cent sales tax that was used to purchase the rail corridor.
1907
Southern Pacific began construction on Dumbarton Bridge using a subsidiary company called the Central California Railway.
1910
Dumbarton Bridge opens for service.
1959, June 30th
Central Pacific Railroad formally ceases to exist as a company.
1977
Southern Pacific talks to California Public Utility Commission about stopping commuter service due to financial issues.
1980
Caltrans agrees to subsidize commuter service.
1982
Last trains over Dumbarton Corridor.
1985
Caltrans buys a new fleet of passenger cars and locomotives.
1987
Peninsula Commute Joint Powers Board (JPBX) was formed.
1991
JPBX buys the rail line and right of way between San Francisco and San Jose. SP was given freight rights along the line (UP took over freight operations in 1998).
1991
Dumbarton Corridor Feasibility Study (Parson Brinkerhoff).
1992
Amtrak was selected as the company to provide crews to Caltrain.
1994
Dumbarton Bridge was sold to SamTrans.
1996
Dumbarton Corridor Rehabilitation Study (Morrison Knudsen).
1997
Dumbarton Rail Corridor Study (Parson Brinkerhoff).
1998
Western timber trestle of the Dumbarton burns down due to suspected arson.
1998
Union Pacific absorbed the Southern Pacific, a process they began a century ago.
1998
Dumbarton Corridor Transit Plan.
1999
Dumbarton Rail Corridor Study.
2000
The Dumbarton Corridor project was 91% funded, and MTC listed it as one of the 19 most essential projects in the Bay Area.
2002
Jackie Speir introduced a bill to set aside $40 million for the Dumbarton Rail Corridor.
2003
Dumbarton Project Study Report.
2004
MTC Draft Transportation 2030 Plan included a fully funded Dumbarton Rail Corridor.
2004
Facebook incorporated.
2004
Regional Measure 2 generates $135,000,000 from tolls.
2006
Dumbarton is estimated to cost $313,000,000.
2006
Cost increases and inflation raise the cost of the DRC to over 600 million dollars.
2008
Bart Warm Springs experienced financial issues (Bart SFO did not generate the expected money needed to fund Bart Warm Springs), so the MTC redirected Dumbarton Money to support Bart Warm Springs Extension.
2010
The rest of the Dumbarton funds were redirected to other projects.
2011
Facebook moves to Menlo Park.
2012
Transit America Services took over Amtrak’s role in operating the commuter trains.
2012
Alameda County tried to pass measure B (1/2 cent sales tax) to fund the Dumbarton, but it did not get voter support.
2016
Facebook offers money to SamTrans to study ways to improve traffic.
2019
Newark Slough Bridge burns down due to suspected arson.
2019, December
Covid-19 Pandemic Begins.
March 2020
Facebook pulls out of the project due to the Covid-19 shelter in place orders and subsequent shift to the work-from-home model. SamTrans suspends the current Dumbarton Project, intending to re-evaluate the project.
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- Acknowledgements
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Special thanks to Professor Gordon Douglas and the Institute for Metropolitan Studies for the idea of a webpage based on my Planning Report, and to Chris Hazel for handling the project's programming and website creation aspects. Special thanks also go out to Hillary Nixon and the Mineta Transportation Institute for supporting this idea and funding the creation of this website. Photo credits go to Brad Fick, who provided photographs of the Dumbarton Bridge used on this website and in my Planning Report.
Neither this website nor the underlying research and report produced were requested, sanctioned, or otherwise endorsed by SamTrans or any other stakeholders. (Any mistakes are the responsibility of the author.)
-- Joe Romani
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