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Contra Costa 'Other Coast' / Wichels, Ernest [791] [WICHELS-1964-791]
Contra Costa, meaning the "opposite coast," is no longer a stranger. The water barriers have gradually broken down. About Dec. 28, 1885, a ferry carried the first train across Carquinez Strait [...]

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News Clipping - First train to cross on the Benicia-Martinez Ferries, the Solano and the Contra Costa

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Contra Costa, railroad ferry

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The train ferry Contra Costa with two Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives aboard at Benicia

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Martinez Benicia Bridge, Carquinez Straits, California

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County grows and ruffians rile children / Delaplane, Kristin [371] [ECHOS-1998-371]
The county asked for a Suscol and Vallejo road to connect Vallejo with the steam ferry to a point on the Contra Costa shore opposite Mare Island. From there travelers would take a wagon road to Alameda County. This would mean the traveling public would have an accessible and continuous highway from Napa to San Francisco that could be traveled in as short as four hours.

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