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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...
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    The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a 271-mile (436 km) mainline railroad from the former ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka...
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    The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51...
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    railroad acquired the Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad in Felton. The line over the mountains was completed in May 1880. The South Pacific Coast Railroad...
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  • Thumbnail for Coast Line (California)
    The Coast Line is a railroad line between Burbank, California and the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast. It is the shortest rail...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Pacific Railroad
    The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to...
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    operated dual-gauged track to accommodate the North Pacific Coast Railroad and South Pacific Coast Railroad. It would eventually have 67 miles (108 km) of...
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    The Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi...
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    Wrights tunnel (category Railroad tunnels in California)
    gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad which ran trains from San Francisco to Santa Cruz until the railroad was acquired by Southern Pacific Railroad, which...
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  • Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad)...
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  • gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad at Boulder Creek, California. At 17, Jones was promoted to fireman, and later became an engineer. The South Pacific Coast...
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  • Pacific ("SP") stretched from 1865 to 1998. The Southern Pacific was represented by three railroads. The original company was called Southern Pacific...
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    The West Coast of the United States, also known as the Pacific Coast and the Western Seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western United States...
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    history of the Union Pacific Railroad stretches from 1862 to the present. For operations of the current railroad, see Union Pacific Railroad; for the holding...
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  • at the Port of Oakland West Oakland Pacific Railroad Port of Oakland Railway (POAK) Southern California Railroad (SCRR) in Plaster City USG Corporation...
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    the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad. In 1916, that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company. When the Northern Pacific Railway chose nearby Tacoma as...
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  • The Denver Pacific Railway was a historic railroad that operated in the western United States during the late 19th century. Formed in 1867 in the Colorado...
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    1866, and became a charter city in 1876. The completion of the South Pacific Coast Railroad in 1880 and the creation of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in...
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  • hindrance to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad (V&T), the parent company of the C&C, who sold the line to the Southern Pacific Company in 1900. Darius Ogden Mills...
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    The South Coast Railroad Museum in Goleta, California is a showplace for the Goleta Depot, a preserved 1901 Southern Pacific Railroad train station. The...
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    The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark SCL) was a Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its...
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  • Santa Cruz with the former South Pacific Coast Railroad to San Jose, California as an alternative Southern Pacific Coast Line route north of Watsonville...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern Pacific Railway
    The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was an important transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United...
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    Agnew station (category Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California)
    originally served the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad. Landowner Abram Agnew donated 4 acres (1.6 ha) to the railroad to build a station and laid out...
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  • Thumbnail for First transcontinental railroad
    transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built...
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  • Thumbnail for Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
    The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRI&P, RI...
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  • Thumbnail for Southern Pacific Transportation Company
    The Southern Pacific (reporting mark SP) (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996...
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    land for a South Pacific Coast Railroad station and laid out the town, causing the station and town to be referred to as "Agnew's". The railroad depot is...
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  • the Pacific coast terminus of the transcontinental railroad, the Western Pacific Railroad was absorbed in 1870 into the Central Pacific Railroad. The...
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    The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was an American railroad that owned or operated two individual segments of track. One connected St. Louis, Missouri...
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