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San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) provided the first extensive standard gauge rail service to Sonoma County and became the southern end of the regional Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Although first conceived of by Asbury Harpending , who had even obtained many of the right of ways, the SF&NP was bought and subsequently ...
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #8; shipped to Eureka in 1911 for construction through the Eel River canyon; [1] retired 1925 9 Grant Locomotive Works: 4-4-0: 1883 1664 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #9; used in passenger service between Sausalito and Glen Ellen; [1] reboilered 1917 retired 1938 [3] 10 Grant Locomotive ...
San Francisco and Eureka Railway formed by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1903 to build a connection from Willits to Eureka. Merged into NWP in 1907. Merged into NWP in 1907. San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) built from Donahue landing on the Petaluma River to Santa Rosa in 1870 and extended to Cloverdale in 1872.
San Francisco and North Pacific Railway: San Francisco, Tamalpais and Bolinas Railway: NWP 1889 1892 North Pacific Coast Railroad: San Francisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Company: WP: 1902 1903 Western Pacific Railway: San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway: SP: 1887 1894 Southern Pacific Railroad: San Jacinto Valley Railway: ATSF: 1887 1887
The North Coast Limited was the premier passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Butte, Montana and Homestake Pass. It commenced service on April 29, 1900, served briefly as a Burlington Northern train after the merger on March 2, 1970, and ceased operation on April 30, 1971, the day before Amtrak ...
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (and its predecessor North Shore Railroad) operated a network of electric interurban lines in Marin County, California from 1903 to 1941. The lines ran to Sausalito at the southern tip of the county, where connecting ferries ran to San Francisco.
The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge steam railroad begun in 1874 and sold in 1902 to new owners who renamed it the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) and rebuilt the southern section into a standard-gauge electric railway.
The original Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in San Francisco in 1865, by a group of businessmen led by Timothy Phelps with the aim of building a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.