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S. Sacramento Southern Railroad; Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway; Sacramento Valley Electric Railroad; Sacramento Valley Railroad (1852–1877) San Bernardino and Eastern Railway
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 .
The tunnel operated for 33 years after its reopening and saw its last train in February 1940. After two years of inactivity on the rail line through the mountains, Southern Pacific abandoned segment of the railroad between Downtown Los Gatos in Los Gatos [4] and Olympia, along with the Summit Tunnel, in 1942. Both portals were blasted to ...
On September 8, 1981, Bryan Whipple purchased the soon-to-be abandoned northern end of the Northwestern Pacific mainline from Willits, California to Eureka, California.His Eureka Southern Railroad holding company purchased the segment of the line from the Southern Pacific Railroad for $5 million, and commenced operations on November 1, 1984. [1]
Southern Pacific Railroad: California Pacific Railroad Extension Company: SP: 1869 1869 California Pacific Railroad: California, Shasta and Eastern Railway: 1912 1927 N/A California Southern Railroad: ATSF: 1914 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: California Southern Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1889 Southern California Railway: California ...
The station was located in Saugus, [a] and opened by the Southern Pacific Railroad on September 1, 1887 when the Santa Paula Branch Line was completed. [1] [2] The station provided an interchange between the railroad's three lines: the Santa Paula on to the Coast Line, the Soledad Canyon line on to Mojave, and the Valley line south to Los Angeles.
The 3.7-mile (6.0 km) Aptos branch from Aptos to Loma Prieta was built as the Loma Prieta Railroad in 1883 and abandoned in 1928. [5] The line was extended to Davenport in 1905. Until 1940, the line connected in Santa Cruz with the former South Pacific Coast Railroad to San Jose, California as an alternative Southern Pacific Coast Line route ...
(five) Bayshore Cutoff, originally built by the Southern Pacific railroad, tunnel 5 abandoned in 1956; The Portal (proposed) Salesforce Transit Center train box; Los Angeles Metro Rail (three) K Line (under construction) Figueroa Tunnel, on the E Line; Flower Street tunnel, carrying the A and E Lines to the 7th Street/Metro Center station