The Pacific Coast Company

	Foreword	5
	Important Dates in the Pacific Coast Company Story	7
	Part I. Development of the Pacific Coast Railway
A.	John Harford's Horse Railroad	11
B.	The Steam Railroad to San Luis Obispo	17
C.	Expansion	25
D.	Pacific Coast Railway	33
E.	The Oil Wells Came to Santa Maria	51
F.	Competition and the Declining Years	63
G.	Liquidation	78
H.	The Hazards of Narrow Gauge Railroading	83
I.	The Locomotives and Rolling Stock of the Pacific Coast Railway	86
	Part II. The Steamships
J.	The Pacific Coast Steamship Company	99
K.	List of Steamships--1867-1916	104
L.	The Pacific Coast S.S. Company's Railroad at San Diego	123
	Part III. The Pacific Coast Company in Washington
M.	The Railroads	127
N.	The Locomotives and the Rolling Stock	138
	Index	149

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