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J.R. Davis Yard looking southwest, c. 2019 J.R. Davis Yard is a railway hump yard in Roseville, California owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.It is located along the confluence of three of the railroad's lines: the Martinez Subdivision heading southwest to the Sacramento Valley, the Roseville Subdivision which runs over the Sierra Nevada Mountains into Nevada, and the Valley Subdivision which ...
The California Zephyr runs the entire route while the Capitol Corridor terminates in Auburn, California with service to the south and west. As of 2003 the line sees 15 freight trains daily. [3] Southern Pacific undertook double-tracking large portions of the route starting in 1909.
Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. ISBN 0-88418-000-X. Signor, John R. (1988). The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company; Union Pacific's Historic Salt Lake Route. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. ISBN 0-87095-101-7. Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas ...
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.)
Colton Crossing is a railway crossing situated in Colton, California, directly south of Interstate 10.It is where the Sunset Route and the Southern Transcon intersect.. First built in 1883, it was the site of one of the most intense frog wars in railroad construction history, leading to a personal confrontation between famed lawman Virgil Earp and California Governor Robert Waterman.
The line was largely built by the Southern Pacific Railway in the late 1800s. The tracks between Sacramento and Lathrop run on the route of the original Central Pacific Railroad . The branch line from Lathrop reached Goshen in August 1872, Delano in July the following year, and had extended past Bakersfield to Caliente in 1875. [ 6 ]
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The Oakdale Cowboy Museum in Oakdale, housed in the former Southern Pacific railway station. The Oakdale Branch is a short Union Pacific railway line in and around Oakdale, California. The existing segment is the remnant of a much longer line, which traversed the east side of the San Joaquin Valley between Merced and Stockton.