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The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific legacy founded hospitals in San Francisco, Tucson, and Houston. In the 1970s, it also founded a telecommunications network with a state-of-the-art microwave and fiber optic backbone.
The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California, c. 1900; completed in 1894 and still in use, it was the first permanent Southern Pacific structure to be constructed in the Mission Revival Style. One of the original ancestor-railroads of SP, the Galveston and Red River Railway (GRR), was chartered on March 11, 1848, by Ebenezer ...
The tunnel was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1925. The Pengra Pass rail route, also known as the Natron Cutoff, the Cascade Subdivision, or the Cascade Line, is a Union Pacific Railroad line (originally a Southern Pacific Railroad line) connecting Eugene, Oregon, with Klamath Falls, Oregon. Construction of the line began in 1905 and ...
Central Pacific Railway, Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company: Oregon Electric Railway: OE GN/ NP: 1906 1981 Burlington Northern (Oregon–Washington), Inc. Electric until 1945 Oregon and Northwestern Railroad: ONW 1934 1984 N/A Oregon Pacific Railroad: SP: 1880 1894 Oregon Central and Eastern Railroad: Oregon, Pacific and ...
The Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (reporting mark CORP) is a Class II railroad [2] operating between Northern California and Eugene, Oregon, United States.It was previously a mainline owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) between Eugene and Weed, California (north of Redding, California) via Medford, Oregon.
The Southern Pacific started the train on April 17, 1927, soon after the opening of its Cascade Line between Black Butte, California, and Springfield, Oregon . At first the train offered first class service and a $3.00 extra fare; it became an all-Pullman train in 1937. On August 13, 1950, the Cascade became a streamlined coach/Pullman train ...
Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines. The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon from 1914 to 1929. [2] The service got its name from the bright red color of its ...
Southern Pacific's Shasta Limited on the OWR & N. The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a rail and steamboat transport company that operated a rail network of 1,143 miles (1,839 km) running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a ...