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The South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California, and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco. The railroad was created as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad, founded by local strawberry growers as a way to get their crops to market in San Francisco ...
South Pacific Coast Railroad: SP: 1876 1887 South Pacific Coast Railway: South Pacific Coast Railway: SP: 1887 1937 Southern Pacific Company: South San Francisco Belt Railway: SP: 1907 1945 Southern Pacific Company: Southern California Railway: ATSF: 1889 1906 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Southern California Motor Road: SP: 1887 1895 ...
Southern Pacific routes on the Pacific Coast, 1885 A Southern Pacific train at Los Angeles' Arcade Depot, 1891 The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California, c. 1900; completed in 1894 and still in use, it was the first permanent Southern Pacific structure to be constructed in the Mission Revival Style.
It carried the tracks of the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad which ran trains from San Francisco to Santa Cruz until the railroad was acquired by Southern Pacific Railroad, which upgraded the tracks to standard gauge and continued operating trains through the line and its tunnel until a major storm in 1940 washed out certain sections ...
On 12 May 1989, a Southern Pacific train carrying trona derailed in San Bernardino, California. The train failed to slow while descending a nearby slope, and sped up to about 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) before derailing, causing the San Bernardino train disaster. The crash destroyed 7 homes along Duffy Street and killed 2 train workers and 2 ...
California's independent 3 ft (914 mm) lines included the Pacific Coast Railway serving the Santa Maria Valley, the North Pacific Coast Railroad and South Pacific Coast Railroads extending northward and southward from San Francisco Bay, and the surviving Disneyland Railroad.
The Mayfield Cutoff (also called the Vasona Line) was a railway line in Santa Clara County, California. It branched from the Coast Line at California Avenue in Palo Alto and ran south to Vasona Junction where it met up with the South Pacific Coast Railroad. [1] [2] The southern segment remains in use for freight trains.
The Pacific Coast Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway on the Central Coast of California. The original 10-mile (16 km) link from San Luis Obispo to Avila Beach and Port Harford was later built southward to Santa Maria and Los Olivos , with branches to Sisquoc and Guadalupe .