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Alameda Terminal (also known as Alameda Wharf) was a railroad station and ferry wharf at the foot and west of present-day Pacific Avenue and Main Street in Alameda, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay with ferry service to San Francisco. [3] [1]: 10–11 It was built in 1864 and operated by the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" [1] owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (reporting mark ATAX) that connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental mainlines of the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad that terminate near downtown Los Angeles, California. [2]
Pacific Harbor Line was named the 2009 Short Line Railroad of the Year by Railway Age magazine. [ 4 ] In July 2013, Pacific Harbor Line signed a new five-year collective agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), which has represented workers at the company since PHL was formed in 1998. [ 5 ]
Outer Harbor Terminal Railway: 1927 1955 N/A Pacific Coast Railroad: 1882 1882 Pacific Coast Railway: Pacific Coast Railway: 1882 1941 N/A All PCRY right of way in Santa Maria Valley absorbed by competitor Santa Maria Valley Railroad: Pacific Electric Railway: PE SP: 1901 1965 Southern Pacific Company: Electric until 1961 Pacific Southwestern ...
The South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California, and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco. The railroad was created as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad, founded by local strawberry growers as a way to get their crops to market in San Francisco ...
California Zephyr Capitol Corridor Coast Starlight: 223,609 City of Davis Amtrak Thruway: 3 Former Southern Pacific station listed on the NRHP: Dunsmuir: Dunsmuir: DUN Coast Starlight: 3,507 Union Pacific Railroad: Emeryville^ Emeryville: EMY California Zephyr Capitol Corridor Coast Starlight San Joaquin: 471,695 City of Emeryville Amtrak ...
The Alameda Terminal and wharf, at the foot of Pacific Avenue in Alameda, was part of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (1863–1870) and became the original western terminus of the First transcontinental railroad on September 6, 1869, when the first Western Pacific through train from Sacramento arrived at Alameda Terminal.
Alameda Shore (Joseph Lee, c. 1868) depicts a ferry meeting the first run of the railroad on August 25, 1864. [5]System construction began in 1864 on a wharf and railroad station (Alameda Terminal) at the foot of Pacific Avenue in Alameda and a railroad from there along Pacific Avenue to 4th Street, private right-of-way to 5th Street, Linnet Street (later Railroad Avenue, then Lincoln Avenue ...