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Carter Brothers
Carter Brothers manufactured railroad cars in northern California during the late 19th century. The firm was founded in 1872 by two Irish carriage-makers who moved to California during the American Civil War. Their cars built more than a century earlier were used into the 21st century on the San Francisco cable car system and the White Pass and Yukon Route. Thomas Carter Thomas Carter was born in Ireland, and immigrated to the United States to work as a carriage-maker in western New York (state), New York. He arrived in California via Panama in 1862 to become shop foreman of the Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–77), Sacramento Valley Railroad. Thomas moved to Portland, Oregon in 1869 to build cars for the railroad to Oregon City, Oregon, Oregon City. Martin Carter Thomas' brother Martin Carter worked as a carriage-maker for the Clark Carriage Factory across the Canada–United States border in Toronto. Martin came to California in 1863 joining his brother working for the Sacram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
