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The Indian Pacific is a weekly experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean – thus, like its counterpart in the north–south corridor, The Ghan, one of the few truly transcontinental trains in the world.
Inter-California Railway: Indian Valley Railroad: 1916 1938 N/A Indian Valley Railway: WP: 1902 1905 Western Pacific Railway: Inter-California Railway: SP: 1904 1935 Southern Pacific Company: Ione and Eastern Railroad: 1904 1908 Amador Central Railroad: Iron Mountain Railway: 1895 1927 N/A Kings Lake Shore Railroad: 1917 1934 N/A Kings River ...
The Central Pacific was searching for a shorter route from the Bay Area to Sacramento [2] and was eyeing the California Pacific (Cal-P) road between Sacramento and Vallejo, completed in November 1868, [3] which became the basis for a Cal-P Vallejo route of about 90 miles (140 km) when steamer ferry service between San Francisco and Vallejo was ...
The line operated a unique railway electrification system among Pacific Electric routes: overhead line was primarily electrified with a 1,200-volt direct current system developed by General Electric. [18] Within town and city limits, the line shared tracks with local streetcars and utilized more traditional 600 volt power.
It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route directly competed with SP's portion of the Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah, and Oakland, California, for nearly 80 years.
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 ...
The Coast Line is a railroad line between Burbank, California [a] and the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast. It is the shortest rail route between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Though not as busy as the Surf Line , the continuation of the Coast Line southbound to San Diego , it still sees freight movements and lots of ...
The Loop became the property of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996, when the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems merged. [12] Trains of the BNSF Railway also use the loop under trackage rights. [3] Although Southern Pacific ran passenger trains on the Loop for years, it banned passenger service there soon after handing its trains to ...