Tidewater Southern Railway

Gallery.. 1910-1919

date unknown (1917-1920?).  location unknown.

Tidewater Southern second 1, a 4-6-0 originally from the Denver and Rio Grande, appears to have just been delivered.  This locomotive would be a fixture on the line until the 1950's.

courtesy of the Stiles Collection, from the estate of Frank Edgerton

The TS spent its first decade building lines and defining what its role would be in the local communities.  During these years it was an independent company, although closely allied with fellow Stockton interurban Central California Traction Company.  Although billed as an passenger interurban, freight was seen as a major opportunity from the beginning and all lines beyond the Stockton-Modesto main trunk were geared toward gathering it.  The changes the road underwent leading up to and just after the Western Pacific acquisition in 1917 would be unmatched until the great changes of the late 1950's and 1960's.

date unknown (1912-1916).  location unknown, Stockton?

TS 100 , a steeplecab electric built by the Central California Traction Company from a flat car and rebuilt into a freight locomotive for the TS in 1912.  This wood bodied juice jack would be the last electric on the railroad, finally retiring in 1948.

courtesy of the Bay Area Electric Railway Association archives.