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The Roseville Subdivision is a railway line in California and Nevada owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, as part of the Overland Route.It runs from Roseville, California over the Sierra Nevada to Reno, Nevada. [1]
Overlanding or 4WD Touring is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, it is accomplished with mechanized off-road capable transport (from bicycles to trucks) where the principal form of lodging is camping, often lasting for extended lengths of time (months to years) and spanning international boundaries.
The 1939 City of San Francisco derailment occurred along today's Elko Subdivision, near a rail siding called Harney, between Beowawe and Palisade. [4]In the 1980s both tracks were relocated out of downtown Elko along the banks of the Humboldt River, [5] resulting in Elko having two historical train depots downtown, with neither connected to track today.
The route explores portions of the California Trail and Hastings Cutoff. Also a Utah Scenic Backway. [15] [75] I Smithsonian Butte National Back Country Byway: Utah: 9 14 Main Street and UT 59 near Apple Valley: Bridge Road and UT 9 in Rockville: Route travels through the Virgin River floodplain, piñon-juniper forests, and sagebrush
Overland Route (Australia), a shipping route via the Suez Canal; Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), a passenger rail line from Chicago to Oakland, California; Overland Trail, a stagecoach and wagon trail in Colorado and Wyoming; Overland Trail (Yukon), a Klondike Gold Rush-era road in the Yukon; Butterfield Overland Mail, a stagecoach ...
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The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming that was shared by several popular emigrant trails during the 19th century, including the Trapper's Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Pony Express route ...
The route proceeds east from Elko, following the Humboldt River, where the line is part of both the Overland Route and Central Corridor, the two lines use directional running to share track, until the two routes separate at Alazon. From this point east, the Shafter Subdivision is only part of the Central Corridor, proceeding towards Salt Lake City.