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The western states of California, Arizona, and Oregon would dominate U.S. agricultural production by the coming of the Great Depression; once such diverse and high-demand crops as wheat, sugar beets, olives, and lettuce were cultivated, California would become known as the nation's "produce basket." [26]
California and Mount Diablo Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1884 California and Nevada Railroad: California and Nevada Railroad: ATSF: 1884 1902 Oakland and East Side Railroad: California Northeastern Railway: SP: 1905 1911 Oregon Eastern Railway: California Northern Railroad: SP: 1860 1881 Northern California Railroad: California and Northern Railway ...
The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western states, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction.
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Retrieved July 18, 2005. Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23, 2005. Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
In winter 1859-1860, Judah was in Washington D.C. lobbying for a Pacific Railroad bill; [18] California would hold a Pacific Railroad Convention in Sacramento on the first Monday that February. [19] Judah returned to California by July, [20] lobbied local newspapers for public support, [21] [22] and surveyed routes to at least [23] three [24 ...
Calico and Odessa Railroad; California State Railroad Museum; California Western Railroad, also called The Skunk Train; Disneyland Railroad (three locomotives are historic) Fillmore and Western Railway - short line used by Hollywood film industry. (Lease agreement ended in 2021)
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 ...
The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) temporarily took over management of railroads during World War I to address inadequacy in critical facilities throughout the overall system, such as terminals, trackage, and rolling stock.