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       2024-01-08T16:25:35Z
       
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       Ever wonder what early transit in #Oakland looked like?The Oakland Railroad Company was started by some familiar names: Shattuck, Alden, Delger, and others, and the leadership soon included Emery and Durant.It started service in 1869, first to the city limits (then at 36th Street) and within a few years it went all the way up Telegraph to Berkeley and the University of California which had just moved from downtown Oakland.The one horse power cars were slow, so later a "steam dummy" was added for the section from Temescal to Berkeley.https://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Railroad_Company#OaklandHistory #OaklandWiki #RailroadHistory