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The establishment of America's transcontinental rail lines securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation systems that grew out of them during the century that followed contributed to the state's social, political, and economic development. When California was admitted as a state to the United States ...
Excursion. Calico and Odessa Railroad (C&OR) Fillmore and Western Railway (FWRY) Napa Valley Wine Train (NVRR) Niles Canyon Railway (NCRY) Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad [2] Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line (service temporarily suspended) Poway-Midland Railroad.
The Sacramento Northern Railway (reporting mark SN) was a 183-mile (295 km) electric interurban railway that connected Chico in northern California with Oakland via the state capital, Sacramento. In its operation it ran directly on the streets of Oakland, Sacramento, Yuba City, Chico, and Woodland. This involved multiple car trains making sharp ...
California Western 45 photo special eastbound at the first crossing of the Noyo River, 2009. The California Western Railroad (reporting mark CWR), AKA Mendocino Railway, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of Fort Bragg to the ...
Opened in 2013, [2] the museum occupies the restored former Southern Pacific Freighthouse (built 1894) at 1940 Santa Barbara Avenue, adjacent to the Union Pacific main line and about one-quarter mile south of the San Luis Obispo Amtrak station. A standard-gauge display track extends along the east side of the building, and a short narrow-gauge ...
CFNR #105 EMD GP15-1. The California Northern Railroad (reporting mark CFNR) is one of several Class III short-line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. It operates over Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) tracks (now Union Pacific Railroad) under a long-term lease. The CFNR was originally owned by the Park-Sierra Rail Group (owner ...
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Electrification. Overhead line, 600 V DC[1] Map. The Los Angeles Railway (also known as Yellow Cars, LARy and later Los Angeles Transit Lines) was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1895 and 1963.
California Zephyr. (1949–1970) The California Zephyr was a passenger train that ran between Chicago, Illinois, and Oakland, California, via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Winnemucca, Oroville and Pleasanton in the United States. It was operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q), Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW) and Western Pacific ...