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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] The route originated as the initial Central Pacific Railroad segment of the first transcontinental railroad, but has since been ...
The Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on April 28, 1973, at a major Southern Pacific rail yard in the city of Roseville, California. [1] The shipment of munitions bound for the Vietnam War originated at the Hawthorne, Nevada Naval Ammunition Depot. Explosions continued for a number of hours and the ...
Roseville, CA. Roseville station from across the tracks in September 2012. General information. Location. 201 Pacific Street. Roseville, California. United States. Coordinates. 38°45′00″N 121°17′10″W / 38.7500°N 121.2862°W / 38.7500; -121.2862.
916, 279. FIPS code. 06-62938. GNIS feature IDs. 1659544, 2411000. Website. www.roseville.ca.us. Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area. As of 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 141,500, making it the third-largest city in the Sacramento ...
Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6% U.S. government bonds authorized by Sec. 5 of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.They were issued at the rate of $16,000 ($265,000 in 2017 dollars) per mile of tracked grade completed east of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada range near Roseville, CA where California state geologist Josiah Whitney had determined were the ...
The Martinez subdivision is a Union Pacific railway line which runs from Roseville, California to Oakland, California. [ 1] It is informally referred to as the Cal-P line, after the original California Pacific Railroad, who constructed the line from Sacramento to Suisun and Fairfield. (As such, the nickname may only apply to that segment.)
Tunnel Number 41, or the Big Hole, is a single-track railway tunnel underneath Mount Judah in the Sierra Nevada, near Norden, California. [1] It is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, [2] in service as a part of the Roseville Subdivision of the Overland Route. Daily freight trains as well as Amtrak 's California Zephyr utilize the line.
California Northern Railroad. CFNR #105 EMD GP15-1. The California Northern Railroad (reporting mark CFNR) is one of several Class III short-line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. It operates over Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) tracks (now Union Pacific Railroad) under a long-term lease.