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The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the public transit system for San Francisco, California. Several bus, trolleybus, streetcar/light rail, and cable car routes were historically served, but have been discontinued. It began service on December 28, 1912, with two streetcar routes on Geary Boulevard and continued to expand operations.
In 1905, Yoakum purchased the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway, which connected with the StLB&M at Houston. [ 10 ] The next link eastward was the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway , construction of which began in 1905 from Anchorage, Louisiana [ 11 ] (opposite Baton Rouge ), to DeQuincy, Louisiana , with trackage rights purchased ...
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad [6] Grand Trunk (GT) Great Northern Railway (GN) Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway [7] Fernley and Lassen Railway; Fredericksburg and Northern Railway [8] Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad [9] Houston, East & West Texas Railroad [10] Houston & Texas Central Railway [11]
On August 24, 1916, the Frisco was reorganized as the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, though the line never went west of Texas, terminating more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from San Francisco. The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway had two main lines: St. Louis–Tulsa–Oklahoma City-Floydada, Texas, and Kansas City–Memphis–Birmingham.
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: SLSF: 1900 1964 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: St. Louis Southwestern Railway: SSW SSW 1954 1997 Union Pacific Railroad: St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas: SSW SSW: 1891 1984 St. Louis Southwestern Railway: San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway: SAAP SP: 1884 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad
San Francisco cable car system; San Jose Steam Railroad Museum (Proposed) San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Sonoma TrainTown Railroad; Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum from 1956-2018) Western Pacific Railroad Museum; Western Railway ...
Pages in category "Defunct California railroads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 209 total. ... Napa and Calistoga Railway; San ...
On 28 March 1907, the Southern Pacific Sunset Express, descending the grade out of the San Timoteo Canyon, entered the Colton rail yard traveling about 60 miles per hour (97 km/h), hit an open switch and careened off the track, resulting in 24 fatalities. Accounts said 9 of the train's 14 cars disintegrated as they piled on top of one another ...