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Train station at Adeline Street in 1867. The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad (and Ferry Co.) was formed in October 1861 under the leadership of Rodman Gibbons and other Oakland residents in order to provide transportation to Oakland by means of a ferry from San Francisco to a small wharf at Oakland Point where passengers could take a train into Oakland.
The Blue Line is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs between Dublin/Pleasanton station and Daly City station. It has 18 stations in Dublin, Pleasanton, Castro Valley, San Leandro, Oakland, San Francisco, and Daly City. The Blue Line shares much of its track with other BART services.
CPRR/UPRR "The Great American Over-land Route" Time Table cover (1881) The first contiguous transcontinental rail service on "The Great American Over-land Route" [1] between the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific on the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa [2] /Omaha, Nebraska via Ogden, Utah [3] and Sacramento (WPRR/CPRR) to the San Francisco Bay at the Oakland Wharf [4] was opened over ...
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland International Airport.
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
Meanwhile, Oakland called San Francisco at 6:32 p.m. to advise them a train was on fire in the tunnel, so San Francisco dispatched a team to wait at Embarcadero at 6:36 p.m., but the San Francisco units did not proceed until 7:52 p.m. and did not arrive until 8:15 p.m. because of the difficulty in obtaining information from either Oakland or BART.
Some morning trains and all trains after 9 pm are extended from SFO to serve Millbrae station when the Red Line is not running. It serves 28 stations in Antioch, Pittsburg, Bay Point, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Oakland, San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae. It is the most ...
An Antioch-bound train at the station. MacArthur station has two island platforms and four tracks, allowing cross-platform interchanges between lines. Outer tracks 1 and 2 serve the Orange Line and Red Line; Track 1 goes northbound towards Richmond, and Track 2 goes southbound towards Berryessa/ North San José and San Francisco.