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Lt Governor Rutherford attends the Adult Recovery Court Completion Celebration by Joe Andrucyk at 3451 Court House Dr, Ellicott City, MD 21043
Lt. Governor Sheila Simon visited Carl Sandburg College on Monday, Sept. 26. Simon's stop is the 33rd of her statewide tour of all 48 community colleges to learn about completion rates at each institution.
37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
Following the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, train travel from Sacramento to San Francisco was challenging. Because the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) terminated in Sacramento, passengers had few options for direct travel to San Francisco. Some passengers took a railroad route to Vallejo where they boarded a ferry to San Francisco. Another option was a rail line that traveled east to Stockton, then San Jose and Oakland. From there, they ferried to San Francisco. Neither way was fast nor easy.
By 1877 the outcry for a shorter, more efficient route was resounding. CPRR President, Leland Stanford, tasked CPRR Superintendent of Bridges and Structures, Arthur Brown, to develop a solution. The answer? A ferry that could carry trains!
The Solano Train Ferry crossed the Carquinez Strait several times a day. This allowed faster travel to San Francisco. This ferry— the largest in the world —operated until the Martinez-Benicia Railroad Bridge opened in 1930.
Arthur Brown designed both the Solano and its ferry slips at the Bay Area towns of Benicia and Port Costa. The ferry could carry two complete trains with either 48 freight cars or 24 passenger cars, as well as both locomotives. To accommodate the trains, the Solano was 424 feet long and 116 feet wide. Brown also constructed four wooden Pratt trusses – like those in a rail bridge – underneath the ferry’s deck to support the weight of the trains. Two walking-beam engines, a type of steam engine, powered the ferry’s two large paddle wheels.
Trains heading to the Bay Area loaded the Solano at the town of Benicia. Brown designed the ramps on the ferry slips to lower and raise. This allowed entire trains – along with their passengers and goods – to roll directly onto the ferry.
The ferry then traveled one mile across the Carquinez Strait to the small town of Port Costa. The trip took about ten minutes. Once at Port Costa, the trains unloaded the ferry and continued to Oakland. In Oakland, passengers deboarded and took a passenger ferry to San Francisco. Those who traveled back to Sacramento traveled the same route in reverse.
The Solano did more than transport trains and passengers. It also helped businesses expand in Benicia and Port Costa. Because of the railroad and ferry, businesses could transport goods to other cities easier. As a result, these communities increased their importance in the canning, grain, and tanning industries.
On November 1, 1930, Californians celebrated a new engineering marvel: the Martinez-Benicia Railroad Bridge. Many spectators gathered for the grand opening. At the event, the historic locomotive C.P. Huntington led a ceremonial train across the bridge. The bridge replaced the Solano. After 51 years of operation, passengers boarded the Solano for one final trip across the Carquinez Strait.
A few months after the Solano’s last trip, the ferry was sold for scrap parts. Its remains were dynamited in the Sacramento River near Antioch, California. Parts of the ferry are still visible there today
37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
This is one of the two "smaller murals" which depicts some of the important figures at the time of the Terminal's completion in 1933.
WCC celebrated the youth who completed the Summer Learning Experience at Parkridge Community Center with a Completion Ceremony.
(Photos by JD Scott)
37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
Lt. Governor Sheila Simon visited Carl Sandburg College on Monday, Sept. 26. Simon's stop is the 33rd of her statewide tour of all 48 community colleges to learn about completion rates at each institution.