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The Southern California Rapid Transit District was planning a new subway along Wilshire Boulevard while the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission was also designing a light rail system utilizing a former Pacific Electric corridor. The light rail Blue Line opened to Long Beach in 1990.
(Los Angeles) CWT Pacific Surfliner: 38,353 Los Angeles Department of Transportation: Metrolink: Ventura County: Chico^ Chico: CIC Coast Starlight: 25,250 City of Chico Amtrak Thruway: 3 Colfax^ Colfax: COX California Zephyr: 5,214 Amtrak Thruway: 20 Colonel Allensworth State Park: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park: CNL San Joaquin: No data
Pages in category "Passenger rail transportation in California" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total. ... Los Angeles Metro Rail;
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah.Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter.
Amtrak California (reporting mark CDTX) is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak regional rail routes in California – the Capitol Corridor, the Pacific Surfliner, and the San Joaquins [1] – and their associated connecting network of Amtrak Thruway transportation services.
A 1,377-mile (2,216 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States. It runs from Union Station in Los Angeles north to King Street Station in Seattle, Washington. Southwest Chief A 2,265-mile (3,645 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak through the Midwestern and Southwestern United States.
The Chief was an American long-distance named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.The Santa Fe initiated the Chief in 1926 to supplement the California Limited.
In 1992, Southern Pacific granted the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission an option to purchase the entire Coast Line for passenger train operations at 110 mi/h (180 km/h). Upgrades to signals and tracks to enable higher-speed operations were estimated to cost $360 million at the time. [ 16 ]