San Luis Obispo County History

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara,
San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California
by Yda Addis Storke
Published in 1891 in Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Co.


RAILWAYS. 

The Pacific Coast Railway, at that time known as the San Luis Obispo & Santa 
Maria Valley Railway, was opened from Avila to Castro, some seven miles distant, 
February 1, 1876. Thence it was extended from Castro to San Luis Obispo, operations 
being begun August 16, 1876. The next section opened was from Avila to Port Har- 
ford, December 1, 1876; and the next, from San Luis to Arroyo Grande, the extension 
being completed and operations begun October 16, 1881. Then followed the section 
from Arroyo Grande to Santa Maria, June 1, 1882; thence Santa Maria to Los Alamos, 
October 4, 1882; and from Los Alamos to Los Olivos, the present terminus, November 
17, 1887. The total length of the road is now 76.1 miles in this county.