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The Spirit of Sacramento, also known as the Grand Romance, [1] formerly known as the Putah, the Mansion Belle, the Chicu San [2] and unofficially known as the Old Spirit of Sacramento, is a snagboat famous for its appearance in the 1955 film Blood Alley starring John Wayne. After a devastating fire in 1996, the boat fell into disrepair and now ...
In September, she made one trip to Sacramento and back, then was sold to Simmons, Hutchinson & Company for service between Sacramento and the Yuba River. [3] The first steamboat advertised in the Weekly Alta California , on October 18, 1849, providing transport between San Francisco and Sacramento, and touching at Benicia, was the Mint , a 36 ...
In the early 19th century, the famous fur trapper Jedediah Smith explored the area east of Sacramento, between the settlement at the confluence now known as Old Sacramento, and Folsom. The area follows the course of the American River, and is rich in a diversity of wildlife. In the late 19th century, the trail was marked out by a prototype ...
Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California.
Steamboat Slough is an alternate branch of the Sacramento River, named for its popular use by steamboats traveling between San Francisco and Sacramento.Its mouth is found at an elevation of 3 feet (0.9 m), 2 miles (3 km) above Rio Vista, between Grand Island and Ryer Island.
The Old Sacramento State Historical Park currently includes the California State Railroad Museum, a train depot for excursion train rides and reconstructions of a cluster of early commercial ...
It also has routes extending to Downtown Sacramento, the Sacramento International Airport, Yolobus is the only public transit agency that currently offers regularly scheduled service to the airport. Unitrans [ 15 ] is the bus transit system that operates in and around UC Davis , ferrying students and faculty between the campus and various ...
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