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West Portal station is a Muni Metro station in the West Portal neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is built around the western entrance to the Twin Peaks Tunnel. The station consists of two side platforms, with the entrance at the western end. A non-accessible footbridge connects the platforms inside fare control.
January 22 – United States – Redondo Junction train wreck, Los Angeles: Bound for San Diego, two coupled Santa Fe Rail Diesel Cars , making up train No. 82, derail and topple over at 69 mph (111 km/h) in an evening high-speed accident, killing 30 persons on board and seriously injuring 117. The accident marked the end of the RDC units ...
1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [195] [196] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [197] [198] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured. 1976 New Canaan Branch collision, New Canaan, Connecticut; 2 killed plus 29 injured [186] [199]
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The Bay Area hosts several regional commuter rail operations, as well as inter-city rail. Commuter and intercity. Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) [2] Amtrak (California Zephyr, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins) [3] Caltrain [4] Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit [5] Rapid transit. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) [6] Light rail ...
The extension's approval represents a significant step in making California's high-speed bullet train between L.A. and San Francisco a reality.
Cable car operations along Market Street began in 1888. Service was electrified in 1906. [4]In 1915, the San Francisco Municipal Railway started the F-Stockton route, which ran from Laguna (later Scott) and Chestnut Streets in the Marina down Stockton Street to 4th and Market Streets near Union Square, later extended to the Southern Pacific Depot (currently the Caltrain Depot) in 1947.