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ex-San Francisco and San Jose Railroad #2 San Jose became Northwestern Pacific Railroad #4 2 J.G.Downey: Booth 4-4-0 1870 14 became Northwestern Pacific Railroad #6 3 W.J.Ralston: Booth 4-4-0 1870 15 became Northwestern Pacific Railroad #7 4 Geyser: Booth 4-4-0 1873 16 scrapped 1904 5 Santa Rosa: Booth 4-4-0 1873 17 became Northwestern Pacific ...
San Francisco and North Pacific Railway: San Francisco, Tamalpais and Bolinas Railway: NWP 1889 1892 North Pacific Coast Railroad: San Francisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Company: WP: 1902 1903 Western Pacific Railway: San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway: SP: 1887 1894 Southern Pacific Railroad: San Jacinto Valley Railway: ATSF: 1887 1887
Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890. The 38th United States Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway Company on July 2, 1864, with the goals of connecting the Great Lakes with Puget Sound on the northwestern coast of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, opening vast new lands for farming, ranching, lumbering and mining, and linking the Federal territories and later newly admitted to the ...
San Francisco and Eureka Railway formed by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1903 to build a connection from Willits to Eureka. Merged into NWP in 1907. Merged into NWP in 1907. San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) built from Donahue landing on the Petaluma River to Santa Rosa in 1870 and extended to Cloverdale in 1872.
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #8; shipped to Eureka in 1911 for construction through the Eel River canyon; [1] retired 1925 9 Grant Locomotive Works: 4-4-0: 1883 1664 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #9; used in passenger service between Sausalito and Glen Ellen; [1] reboilered 1917 retired 1938 [3] 10 Grant Locomotive ...
The San Francisco and North Pacific Rail Road Company. Incorporated November 16, 1869. Consolidated on July 12, 1877, with 22 and 26 to form 21. 24. The San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad Company. Incorporated July 28, 1868. Sold on November 17, 1869, to 23. 25. The Sonoma County Railroad Company. Incorporated January 10, 1868.
On November 21, 1980, the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway was acquired, giving the railroad trackage as far south as Florida. In the early 1980s two independently operated railroads, owned by Burlington Northern Inc. were absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad; the Colorado and Southern Railway was absorbed in 1981, followed by the ...
The financial problems caused the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to be taken over by the Union Pacific Corporation; the parent Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (formerly Rio Grande Industries), the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and the SPCSL Corporation were also taken over by the Union ...