This advertisement, which featured an opportunity to travel to the beautiful Mount Diablo Country, was placed in the San Francisco Call newspaper in 1922.
For $1 (round trip), you could travel by train from Oakland to Walnut Creek and Concord to check out the “country full of pleasure to the lover of nature”.
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Wow! That must have been a fun day trip. From San Francisco to Antioch. You can’t even park yer ole’ jalopy anywhere along that route for that price now
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If you’re referring to the ad referencing “Oakland and Antioch” that was the name of the railroad, Oakland, Antioch, and Eastern Railroad and commonly referred to as the “Oakland and Antioch,” it later became the San Francisco – Sacramento Railroad, and then the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
Our area was much better served by these railroads than we are by BART.
Concord had stops at Meinert, Whitman, Gavin, Moore, Walwood, Hillside, Kilgore (BART Concord Yard), Concord Station (CVS parking lot), Bacon/MDHS Student Stop (PCH X Baldwin Park), Dorenda/Dorenda’s Curve (PCH X North 6th Street), Adeline/Sweet Adeline (PCH X Olivera Road/East Olivera Road), Ohmer/Ohmer Hill (PCH X Panoramic Drive/North Concord/Martinez BART Station), Government Ranch (Clyde).
Black Knight. “just to keep it moving” empty train used to creep past our street in the late 60’s. Stood out there and watched them rip out the tracks on PCH. Got me a rusty old spike souvenir in exchange for squeeling Bart and what Concord sold us as a “linear” Park… meaning a weedy dog-poop walkway and place for homeless to hang out and toss trash in the shrubs.
NO EXCUSES,
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You must be remembering the freight train that ran down PCH. Passenger service ceased on the Sacramento Northern in Concord about 1940, the “End of an Era” passenger excursion ran through Concord in the summer of 1964, and freight service ran down PCH and through Concord until December 1973. I also remember watching the train run past my house. We were screwed with BART replacing the train olong PCH.
I always wondered what the natives called Diablo before they named it Diablo … I know it was a sacred place for them to worship
Tuyshtak (Ohlone/Costanoan)
Oj.ompil.e (Northern Miwok)
Supremenenu (Southern Miwok)
SukkuJaman (Nisenan)
Kawukum (group of origin is unknown)
An early Spanish name for the peak was “Cerro Alto de los Bolbones,” or “High Point of the Volvon Indians.” At one time, most of the mountain lay within the homeland of the Volvon, a Bay Miwok group.
https://museumsrv.org/mount-diablo-a-sacred-mountain/
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From what I understand that our Local Natives the Chupcans called it Tuystak. I’m not sure if that spelling is right
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At one time the train took a right at Oak Grove from Minert and went to the top of Mt Diablo,till they had a mishap,the train rolled backward down the mountain,crashed,and lives were lost.They ended it then.
If you look at the house built on that corner,it still has the old chain link fence from when the property wasnt being used but nobody had built a house there yet,and the wooden backyard fence is built within the chain link fence.Old photos show that piece of track still there on the corner,not being used anymore.
A couple of corrections. The train never reached the top of Diablo and the branch you’re speaking about might be part of the Antioch and Eastern that went out Castle Rock Road a little Beyond Northgate High from what I can tell. It didn’t last long. Off of that Branch there was at least one if not two Short Spurs that ran east up limeridge. They wpuld gravity ride the cars down to the main at Grove and Meinert. I read one account of one getting away one time but don’t recall anybody getting killed
You’re completely incorrect but nice try.
It went up the mountain,people died in the crash
Mark Twain wrote for the San Francisco Call.
An early history of Contra Costa, including “Devil Mountain”
https://cowellian.wordpress.com/early-history/