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