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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.
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]
List of defunct San Francisco Municipal Railway lines; List of abandoned railway lines in South Africa This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 11:01 ...
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
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.
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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 ...
1964–1980 St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (parent company merged with subsidiary) 1965–1996 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (acquired the GC&SF) 1980–1996 Burlington Northern (acquired the SLSF and the bankrupt CRI&P lines in the Dallas area, merged the FW&D in 1982) 1989–present Union Pacific (acquired the MKT in 1989, Southern Pacific ...