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In 1917, the SD&A acquired the San Diego and Southeastern Railway, which operated branches to Foster (formerly the San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad) and Bonita (formerly the National City & Otay Railway) [1]. J.D. Spreckels drives the "golden spike" to ceremonially complete the San Diego and Arizona Railway on November 15, 1919.
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in El Centro ...
Spreckels' other rail-related concern, the San Diego and Arizona Railway (built in part to provide San Diego with a direct transcontinental rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro) was invited to make use of the facility. The first SD&A passenger train arrived in downtown on December 1, 1919.
Beginning in 1912, construction began on the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway in the area. [13] The Carrizo Gorge portion of the line, including Goat Canyon, was the final portion to be completed. [15] A railroad tunnel of The San Diego and Arizona Railway, Tunnel number 15, was built into the side of the canyon but it collapsed in 1932. [16]
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San Diego Historical Society San Diego Biographies: John D. Spreckels (1853–1926) — accessed September 6, 2005. Smythe, William E. (1908). History of San Diego: 1542-1908. San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA., Part 5, Chapter 6: "John D. Spreckels Solves the Railroad Problem" Black, Samuel T. (1913). San Diego County California.
In 1885, a transcontinental railroad route came to San Diego, and the population boomed, reaching 16,159 by 1890. In 1906 the San Diego and Arizona Railway of John D. Spreckels was built to provide San Diego with a direct transcontinental rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro, California.
The San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy), the direct predecessor of today's MTS, was founded in 1891 by John D. Spreckels (who would later go on to build the San Diego and Arizona Railway). The SDERy would greatly expand electric streetcar service by purchasing several existing transit companies and converted them to electric operation.