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A Western Pacific passenger train in the Feather River canyon, c. 1910s. Construction of the line began in 1906 and continued under harsh conditions. In the Sierra, a total absence of roads, along with rockslides in the Feather River Canyon and extreme temperature fluctuation, made working conditions uncomfortable and dangerous.
The WP would then transport the logs to the Hutchinson sawmill in Oroville, California. The sawmill burned in 1927; and the railway was unused through the Great Depression until reorganized as a common carrier in 1938 to serve a new sawmill built at Feather Falls. Georgia-Pacific purchased the sawmill and railway in 1955.
The Zephyr Project is a program of the Feather River Rail Society to acquire, preserve and restore cars, locomotives, personal stories and artifacts relating to the California Zephyr. Currently, the Project's collection of equipment includes Western Pacific FP7 no. 805-A, Silver Hostle, a dome lounge car, dome-coach "Silver Lodge" and dining ...
Through the Feather River Canyon, from SR 149 to US 395, SR 70 is the Feather River Scenic Byway, a Forest Service Byway that parallels the ex-Western Pacific Railroad's Feather River Route. The Beckwourth Trail was the earliest predecessor of SR 70, which was a spur of the California Trail. This was followed by the railroad, mostly built on ...
California Zephyr pulled by Western Pacific locomotives through Feather River Canyon The California Zephyr was the famous Western Pacific passenger train but the railroad had a few others: Exposition Flyer (Chicago to Oakland in conjunction with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, 1939 to 1949 ...
Details follow: 1972 San Rafael residents approved a bond issue of $2,250,000 bond issue to purchase open space citywide, including parcels in North San Rafael. 1973 Mont Marin neighborhood formed an assessment district to purchase the 184-acre Mont Marin Open Space for $314,000.
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a rail line and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California.When completed, the entire system will serve a 70-mile (110 km) corridor between Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County and Larkspur Landing in Marin County.
The Western Pacific Railroad (now part of the Union Pacific) built the tracks along the Feather River in 1909 to complete a route from the San Francisco Bay Area to Salt Lake City, Utah, providing an alternate to the Southern Pacific's route over Donner Pass. Keddie was the site of the "last spike" ceremony held on November 1, 1909. [3]