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The San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad (SD&IV) (reporting mark SDIY) is a class III railroad operating freight rail service in the San Diego area, providing service to customers in the region and moving railcars between the end of BNSF Railway in downtown San Diego and the Mexico–United States border in San Ysidro.
The San Diego and Arizona Railway (reporting mark SDA) was a 148-mile (238 km) short line U.S. railroad founded by entrepreneur John D. Spreckels, and dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved.
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway Company and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines ...
San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway: SDAE SP: 1933 Still exists as a lessor of the Carrizo Gorge Railway and San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad: San Diego and Arizona Eastern Transportation Company: SDAE 1979 1984 San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad: San Diego Central Railroad: ATSF: 1886 1887 California Central Railway: San Diego and ...
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is a museum in San Diego, California, that focuses on the heritage of railroading through model railroads. It was founded in 1982. The museum is located on the lower level of Casa de Balboa in Balboa Park. [1] [2] At 27,000 sq. ft., it is the largest model railroad museum in North America.
The museum's renovation of the depot won an award from San Diego's historic preservation society, Save Our Heritage Organization. [13] Next to the depot is a display train consisting of saddletank steam locomotive 0-6-0ST Mojave Northern Railroad #3, a Pacific Fruit Express reefer car, and a Southern Pacific Railroad caboose.
The MTDB also continued to operate the freight operations of the SD&AE. The board reached a deal with the San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad to continue to move railcars from the end of the Santa Fe Railway in downtown San Diego to either industrial customers in the San Diego area or to the Mexico–United States border in San Ysidro.
Santa Fe Depot is a union station in San Diego, California, built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the small Victorian-style structure erected in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company.