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Northern California Railroad: California and Northern Railway: NWP 1900 1904 San Francisco and Northwestern Railway: California Northwestern Railway: NWP 1898 1907 Northwestern Pacific Railroad: California and Oregon Railroad: SP: 1865 1870 Central Pacific Railroad: California Pacific Railroad: SP: 1865 1898 Southern Pacific Railroad ...
Pages in category "Closed railway lines in the United States" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
California Midland Railroad (of 1905) Marysville; California Terminal Company 1911 Lakeport and Richardson's Bay Railroad; Central California Traction Route downtown Sacramento to Stockton and competed directly with SP and WP between the two cities. Later owned by WP. Converted to diesel. Currently an active Class III freight railroad.
California's symbolic and tangible connection to the rest of the country was fused at Promontory Summit, Utah, as the "last spike" was driven to join the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, thereby completing the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869 (before that time, only a few local rail lines operated in the ...
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in El Centro ...
The sugar beet factory closed in 1927, and electric operations ended in 1928, although steam locomotives still worked the branches occasionally. Profits peaked in 1921 and declined as automobiles became more common, but the railroad saw a brief increase in business hauling gravel for construction of U.S. Route 101 in 1928 and '29.
Pages in category "California railroads" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The station was closed on May 1, 1971, as Amtrak assumed most intercity rail operations in the United States and the Central Valley was left out of the initial system. When services were resumed in Fresno in 1974, they used the Santa Fe Passenger Depot on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line, about 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) to the northeast.