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In June 1996, the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train started service with the two renovated passenger cars serving Saturday nights. The new operation got a huge boost almost immediately when Malcolm Glover, a McCloud native who had become a popular reporter in San Francisco, penned a glowing review of the dinner train in one of the city's papers. [1]
A dinner train is a relatively new type of tourist train service whose main purpose is to allow people to eat dinner while experiencing a relatively short, leisurely round trip train ride. This contrasts with conventional passenger trains, whose main purpose is to transport passengers to some destination as quickly as possible but which also ...
Arizona and California Railroad: ARZC Genesee & Wyoming: 190 (84 in CA) California Northern Railroad: CFNR Genesee & Wyoming: 210: Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad: CORP Genesee & Wyoming: 305 (56 in CA) Central Valley Union Railroad: CVUR 12: Lake County Railroad: LCR/LCY Frontier Rail 54: Napa Valley Wine Train: NVRR 18: Niles Canyon ...
Passengers enjoy the sightseer lounge car on Amtrak's California Zephyr during its daily 2,438-mile trip to Emeryville/San Francisco from Chicago that takes roughly 52 hours on March 24, 2017 in ...
The Oakdale Cowboy Museum in Oakdale, housed in the former Southern Pacific railway station. The Oakdale Branch is a short Union Pacific railway line in and around Oakdale, California. The existing segment is the remnant of a much longer line, which traversed the east side of the San Joaquin Valley between Merced and Stockton.
RIDE THE RAILS: 12 best Amtrak vacations and scenic train rides in North America The Green Mountain State is known for its autumn displays with oak, maple, and ash trees exploding in rainbow pops ...
Known for its wine-tasting locomotive excursions in Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Wine Train during the holiday season hosts the Santa Train Jolly Journeys, much to the delight of kids — and kids ...
The Santa Fe's (now BNSF Railway) Oakdale Branch provided one freight outlet to the AT&SF Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Valley Division at Riverbank, California; the Southern Pacific Oakdale Branch from Stockton was abandoned in 1986 and torn out by 1990. The Sierra Railroad bought the BNSF mainline from Riverbank MP1 to Oakdale in 2008.