For more information regarding this subject, check out the following web sites and read the following book(s).

Web Sites:

* History of SP Commute Trains on SF Peninsula by GGRM

* SP Commute Trains In The Steam Era by Don Douglas

* Wx4's Dome o' Foam by SP/Amtrak Engineer Ed Gibson

Books:

* Southern Pacific's Coast Line

* Southern Pacific's Coast Line in Color