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The Roseville Subdivision is a railway line in California and Nevada owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, as part of the Overland Route.It runs from Roseville, California over the Sierra Nevada to Reno, Nevada. [1]
A Caltrain train (left) passes Union Pacific and Helm Leasing Company engines at South San Francisco, April 2014 Union Pacific freight trains run on the route, although the Fresno Subdivision through the San Joaquin Valley is the preferred north–south California route due to having easier grades and curves. [ 17 ]
The Martinez Subdivision is a Union Pacific railway line which runs from Roseville, California to Oakland, California. [1] It is informally referred to as the Cal-P line, after the original California Pacific Railroad, who constructed the line from Sacramento to Suisun and Fairfield. (As such, the nickname may only apply to that segment.)
Southern Pacific was purchased by Union Pacific and acquisition was finalized in 1996. In the same year, the ATSF merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form BNSF Railway. With those two mergers, the two major railroads in California became Union Pacific and BNSF, with some smaller short line and switching operations. Line abandonment ...
The line is a directional westbound mainline primarily handling empty coal trains as well as merchandise and intermodal trains. These trains originate in Kansas City, MO and travel on Union Pacific's Falls City Subdivision to Hiawatha where they then proceed west to Marysville, KS, allowing for increased capacity on the Marysville Subdivision.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah.Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter.
The route was included in the 2018 California State Rail Plan as eligible for further study in 2022 and integration into the state rail network by 2040. [6] As of 2024, Monterey–Salinas Transit plans to construct a busway on the former Monterey Branch Line between Marina and Sand City. [7] [8]
The Kansas City and Pacific Railroad (“KC&PR”) was created in 1886 to provide a freight access route from Kansas City south through what was then Oklahoma Territory, now the State of Oklahoma. The line grew to 130 miles of trackage before the company was merged in 1899 into a predecessor of former class-1 rail carrier Missouri–Kansas ...