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Escalon came into being in the late 1800s because of the agricultural production in the immediate area and the need to get the products of that agriculture to market by railroad. John Wheeler Jones settled here with his family in the 1850s, and his son, James Wesley Jones, laid out the community of Escalon 40-plus years later.
Since 1983, the remaining portions of the Tidewater Southern have been the Tidewater Subdivision of the Union Pacific. In 2001, the line on Modesto's Ninth Street was abandoned, severing the railroad in the middle. The Turlock-bound grain trains now bypass the north end of the railroad and enter former TS rails just south of Modesto.
Leased the Eureka and Klamath River Railroad and Humboldt Railroad: Otay Railway: SP: 1887 1888 National City and Otay Railway: Outer Harbor Terminal Railway: 1927 1955 N/A Pacific Coast Railroad: 1882 1882 Pacific Coast Railway: Pacific Coast Railway: 1882 1941 N/A All PCRY right of way in Santa Maria Valley absorbed by competitor Santa Maria ...
Much of the line south to Bakersfield was constructed in the 1890s as part of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. Passenger service between Richmond and Oakland began in June 1904. [3] Passenger service on that segment ended in the 1950s. [4] The Valley Division and Los Angeles Division were merged into the "California Division ...
The Eagle Mountain Railroad saw a reduction on operations that mirrored the reduced production at the mine. During the early 1980s, the railroad was only operating a single ore train three to five times per week, with each train consisting of as few as 40 cars. When the mine closed in 1983, the railroad was barely operating three trains per week.
Sacramento Southern Railroad; San Francisco cable car system; San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Silver Line (San Diego Trolley) Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources; Southern California Railway Museum
The railroad also had various freight cars. The narrow-gauge logging railroad at Round Mountain had 6 locomotives working on the line, two 2-4-2 tanks, an 0-4-0, an 0-6-0 a Climax, as well a Heisler locomotive acquired from the Nevada Short Line Railway (originating from the Borate and Daggett Railroad) and was named "Francis." When the logging ...
In 1901, Frank Norris vilified the Southern Pacific for its monopolistic practices in his acclaimed novel The Octopus: A Story of California; John Moody's 1919 work The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the State referred to "the American railroad problem" wherein the men who rode the iron horse were characterized as "monsters ...