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This diagram shows active and planned mainline railway stations, and is current as of May 2024. This is a route-map template for the List of California railroads, a state passenger rail network. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}. For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The availability of railroad transportation made previously remote areas more accessible to settlers, encouraging westward migration and the establishment of new communities. This expansion of settlement helped to populate and develop the frontier regions of the United States. The Kansas Pacific Railway main line shown on an 1869 map. The ...
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Nevada and California Railroad: Nevada Southern Railway: ATSF: 1892 1895 California Eastern Railway: Newport Wharf and Lumber Company: SP: 1889 1893 Santa Ana and Newport Railway: North Coast Railroad: NCRR 1992 1996 Northwestern Pacific Railroad: North Pacific Coast Railroad: NWP 1871 1902 North Shore Railroad: North Pacific Coast Railroad ...
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Railroad AAR rep. mark Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad: AR Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway: ACWR Alexander Railroad: ARC Atlantic & Western Railway: ATW Caldwell County Railroad: CWCY Carolina Central Railway: Carolina Coastal Railway: CLNA Great Smoky Mountains Railroad: GSMR Winston-Salem Southbound Railway: WSS Yadkin Valley Railroad: YVRR
The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...
The Hueneme, Malibu & Port Los Angeles Railway was a standard-gauge, 15-mile railroad (24 km) in Malibu, California. It was founded by Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) and operated on his 13,000-acre ranch (5,300 ha) along the coast, which encompassed most of what is today Malibu.