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The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California. It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to build a rail connection between what has become the city of Barstow and San Diego, California .
S. Sacramento Southern Railroad; Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway; Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad; Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–1877) San Bernardino and Eastern Railway
Southern Pacific sold 175 miles (282 km) of track to the newly formed Southern California Regional Rail Authority in 1991, which became the nucleus of the Metrolink commuter rail network when it opened one year later. [46] [47] The system would consist of six lines by the end of the millennium, including assumed operation of the Orange County ...
Southern California Railway: ATSF: 1889 1906 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Southern California Motor Road: SP: 1887 1895 Southern Pacific Railroad: Southern Pacific Company: SP SP 1885 1969 Southern Pacific Transportation Company: Southern Pacific Railroad: SP: 1865 1955 Southern Pacific Company: Southern Pacific Railroad Extension ...
While several small scale improvements to rail lines were financed by federal money, more ambitious plans in Florida, Ohio and other states failed when newly elected Republican governors stopped existing high-speed rail plans and returned federal funding. [citation needed] In 2015 construction began on the California High-Speed Rail line.
The city's first railroad was the California Southern, which was built into San Bernardino in 1883. The California Southern was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, and was later incorporated into that system. The original California Southern depot was constructed in 1883 and destroyed by fire in 1916; it was replaced by ...
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad; Cincinnati, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad [3] Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) Columbia Tap Railway [4 ...
Atlantic, Waycross and Northern Railroad - in 1911 took over the St Marys and Kingland Railroad, a short line between Kingsland and the little port of St Marys, the intention being to make the latter a rival to Brunswick and to build a trunk line from the former to connect with the Southern Railway at Fort Valley. The effort was wasted.