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A California Western Railroad train, 2009. The California Western Railroad is a short line railroad that never joined Amtrak. For most of its existence, the line served to haul lumber from the Mendocino Coast Range to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in Willits.
Southern California Railway: California Eastern Railway: ATSF: 1895 1911 California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway: California Midland Railroad: NWP 1902 1903 San Francisco and Northwestern Railway: California and Mount Diablo Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1884 California and Nevada Railroad: California and Nevada Railroad: ATSF: 1884 1902 Oakland and ...
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.
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 ...
Sacramento Southern Railroad; San Francisco cable car system; San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Silver Line (San Diego Trolley) Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources; Southern California Railway Museum
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in 1827, and the "Laying ...
31 Dec 1928 Sacramento Northern Railway, a Western Pacific Railroad subsidiary, acquires the San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad. 1930 Bridge connecting Benicia-Martinez was completed, eliminating railroad's need for railroad ferry "Solano" and "Contra Costa" between Benicia and Port Costa, California .
The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km ...