This is how trains used to cross the Strait. Railcars were rolled aboard these huge ferryboats which plied between Benicia ...

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

BANC PIC 1905.17500.35:178--ALB

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Full title: This is how trains used to cross the Strait. Railcars were rolled aboard these huge ferryboats which plied between Benicia and Port Costa. Photo above shows the Southern Pacific ferry slips at Port Costa. These four-stacker vessels, the "Contra Costa," right, and the "Solano," left, had four rail tracks abreast on the main deck.

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