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The North Pacific Current. The North Pacific Current (sometimes referred to as the North Pacific Drift) is an ocean current that flows west-to-east between 30 and 50 degrees north in the Pacific Ocean. The current forms the southern part of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre and the northern part of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #12; shipped to Eureka in 1911 for construction through the Eel River canyon; [1] reboilered 1917 scrapped 1937 [9] 20 Rogers Locomotive Works 4-4-0: 1884 3306 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #13; used in passenger service between Sausalito and Duncan Mills; [1] reboilered ~1916 retired ...
The California Current (Spanish: Corriente de California) is a cold water Pacific Ocean current that moves southward along the western coast of North America, beginning off southern British Columbia and ending off southern Baja California Sur. It is considered an Eastern boundary current due to the influence of the North American coastline on ...
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 ...
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (and its predecessor North Shore Railroad) operated a network of electric interurban lines in Marin County, California from 1903 to 1941. The lines ran to Sausalito at the southern tip of the county, where connecting ferries ran to San Francisco .
The Trans Bay Cable is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) underwater transmission cable interconnection between San Francisco, California and Pittsburg, California. [1] The 53 mi (85 km) cable under San Francisco Bay and through the Carquinez Strait can transmit 400 megawatts of power at a DC voltage of ±200 kV, enough to provide 40% of San Francisco's peak power needs.
It was owned and operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway (1936–55), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (1955–71), the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. It provided premium extra fare service from Chicago to San Francisco when introduced in 1936 with a running time of 39 hours and 45 ...
Ukiah, a wooden-hulled, double-ended ferryboat, was built in 1890 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company at their Tiburon shipyard.She had a length at the waterline of 277 feet (84 m) (291 feet (89 m) overall), beam of 47 feet 7 inches (14.50 m)—78 feet (24 m) over guards—and hold depth of 15 feet (4.6 m). [4]