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Sonoma County's first standard-gauge railroad, operated by the Sonoma County Railroad Company, was the 1-mile (1.6 km) Petaluma and Haystack Railroad connecting the city of Petaluma with ferry service to San Francisco from Haystack Landing on the Petaluma River in 1864. Petaluma and Haystack coaches were pulled by horses after the locomotive ...
Amtrak (California Zephyr, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins) [3] Caltrain [4] Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit [5] Rapid transit. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) [6] Light rail / streetcar. VTA light rail (VTA) [7] San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) [8] Muni Heritage streetcars (including the Market Street ...
The current Caltrain system map. Caltrain is a commuter rail transit system that serves the San Francisco Peninsula and the Santa Clara Valley in the U.S. state of California.It is operated under contract by TransitAmerica Services and funded jointly by the City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA ...
Since 1863 the San Francisco Peninsula, the series of towns (and later, cities) between San Francisco and San Jose, has been served by a railroad.The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad first provided freight and passenger service, followed by its successor, the Southern Pacific, and then briefly by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and finally by a regional Joint Powers ...
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. [2] The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first ...
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the primary public transit system for San Francisco, California. Muni is part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which is also responsible for the streets, parking, traffic signals, and other transportation in the city. In 2019, Muni had the eighth-highest ridership among systems ...
The Line was originally established as the McAllister streetcar in 1906, [3] running on Market Street, McAllister, Central and Masonic and Fulton. [citation needed] It acquired the number 5 in 1909, being the fifth of the United Railroads of San Francisco lines to turn off Market Street. [4]
CAHSR route as of Feb. 2021. Click to enlarge. The California High-Speed Rail system will be built in two major phases. Phase I, about 520 miles (840 km) long using high-speed rail through the Central Valley, will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles.