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Common freight carriers

Freight carrier information is current .


Other

* Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) *
Oakland Global Rail Enterprise Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay ...
(OGRE) ** West Oakland Pacific Railroad ** Port of Oakland Railway (POAK) *
Southern California Railroad Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, ...
(SCRR) *
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Passenger carriers


Intercity

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Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada. ...
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California Zephyr The ''California Zephyr'' is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno. At , it is Amtrak's longest daily route, and second-longest overall ...
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Coast Starlight The ''Coast Starlight'' is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States between Seattle and Los Angeles via Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area. The train, which has operated continuously since Amtrak's format ...
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Southwest Chief The ''Southwest Chief'' (formerly the ''Southwest Limited'' and ''Super Chief'') is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on a route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and Southwest via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flags ...
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Sunset Limited The ''Sunset Limited'' is an Amtrak passenger train that for most of its history has operated between New Orleans and Los Angeles, over the nation's second transcontinental route. However, up until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it operated betw ...
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Capitol Corridor The ''Capitol Corridor'' is a passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two points most trains operate between, San J ...
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Pacific Surfliner The ''Pacific Surfliner'' is a passenger train service serving the communities on the coast of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo. The service carried 2,924,117 passengers during fiscal year 2016, a 3.4% increase from F ...
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California High-Speed Rail California High-Speed Rail (also known as CAHSR or CHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system currently under construction in California in the United States. Planning for the project began in 1996, when the California Legislature and Gover ...
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Commuter rail

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Altamont Corridor Express The Altamont Corridor Express (also known as ACE, formerly Altamont Commuter Express) is a commuter rail service in California, connecting Stockton and San Jose during peak hours only. ACE is named for the Altamont Pass, through which it ru ...
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Caltrain Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as fa ...
(JPBX) * Coaster (SDNX) * Metrolink (SCAX) *
Peninsula Commute The Peninsula Commute, also known as the Southern Pacific Peninsula or just Peninsula, was the common name for commuter rail service between San Jose, California and San Francisco, California on the San Francisco Peninsula. This service ran as a ...
* Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART)


Local

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Bay Area Rapid Transit Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. BART serves 50 stations along six routes on of rapid transit lines, including a spur line in eastern Contra Costa County which u ...
(BART) ** eBART ** Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line (
people mover A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small scale automated guideway transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks. ...
) * Los Angeles County Metro Rail (LACZ) * San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) **
Muni Metro Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States. Operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni Metro served an average of 15 ...
** Market Street Railway (
E Embarcadero The E Embarcadero is a historic streetcar line that is the San Francisco Municipal Railway's second heritage streetcar line in San Francisco, California. Trial service first ran during the Sunday Streets events on The Embarcadero in 2008. The ...
and F Market & Wharves lines) **
San Francisco cable car system The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railwa ...
* '' OC Streetcar (under construction)'' * Sacramento RT Light Rail (SCRT) *
San Diego Trolley The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system operating in the metropolitan area of San Diego. It is known colloquially as "The Trolley". The Trolley's operator, San Diego Trolley, Inc. (SDTI), is a subsidiary of the San Diego Metropolitan Tra ...
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail VTA Light Rail is a light rail system in San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of of network comprising three main lines on sta ...
(VTA) * Sprinter (SDNX)


Excursion

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Calico and Odessa Railroad The Calico & Odessa Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad in the ghost town of Calico, California, headquartered in Yermo, California. It was named for the town and mountain range of Calico and the nearby Odessa Canyon. It is a remake of t ...
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Fillmore and Western Railway The Fillmore and Western Railway was a heritage railway which operated on track owned by the Ventura County Transportation Commission. Visitors to Fillmore would see filming activity as well as sets and support equipment at the company's rai ...
(FWRY) * Napa Valley Wine Train (NVRR) * Niles Canyon Railway (NCRY) * Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad *
Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line The Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line was a heritage streetcar line for public transit along the waterfront in San Pedro, at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. The line operated between July 2003 and September 2015, wh ...
(service temporarily suspended) * Poway-Midland Railroad * Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad (RCBT) * Sacramento Southern Railroad (SSRR) * Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway (SCBG) * Sierra Railroad (SERA) **
California Western Railroad The California Western Railroad , AKA Mendocino Railway popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railway, heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's he ...
(also known as the Skunk Train) (CWR) ** Sacramento RiverTrain (SYPD) * Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) * Western Railway Museum *
Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) is a historic narrow gauge railroad with two operating steam train locomotives located near Fish Camp, California, in the Sierra National Forest near the southern entrance to Yosemite National ...
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Yreka Western Railroad The Yreka Western Railroad Company is a shortline railroad operating freight trains between the Union Pacific Railroad interchange at Montague and the City of Yreka, California. Railmark Holdings acquired the Yreka Western Railroad in 2017. T ...
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Amusement park

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Disneyland Monorail The Disneyland Monorail System (originally named the Disneyland ALWEG Monorail System) is an attraction and transportation system at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States. It was the first daily operating monorail in the ...
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Disneyland Railroad The Disneyland Railroad (DRR), formerly known as the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, is a 3-foot () narrow-gauge heritage railroad and attraction in the Disneyland theme park of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, in the United St ...
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Ghost Town & Calico Railroad The Ghost Town & Calico Railway is a Narrow gauge railway, narrow-gauge heritage railway, heritage railroad and amusement park attraction within Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement park located in Buena Park, California.Merritt, Christopher, and Lyn ...


Defunct railroads


Private carriers

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Albion Lumber Company Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically and generally to refer to the island, but is less common than 'Britain' today. The name for Scot ...
* American River Land and Lumber Company *
Arcata and Mad River Railroad The Arcata and Mad River Railroad , founded in 1854, was the oldest working railroad in California. It operated on a unique narrow gauge until the 1940s when standard gauge rails were laid. Service ceased in 1983 due to landslides. It is Califor ...
* Bayside Logging Railroad * Bear Harbor and Eel River Railroad * Birch and Smart Railroad * Brookings Lumber and Box Company *
Butte and Plumas Railway __NOTOC__ In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a French word meani ...
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C.D. Danaher Pine Company A CD or compact disc is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings. CD or cd may also refer to: Science and technology Astronomy and cosmology * Cordoba Durchmusterung, a star catalog of the southern sky * Cosmological decade or CÐ, ...
* California Door Company * California Redwood Company * Camino, Cable and Northern Railroad *
Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company The Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company (C&TL&F) was formed to move lumber from trees growing along the shore of Lake Tahoe to the silver mines of the Comstock Lode. Between 1872 and 1898 C&TL&F transferred 750 million board foot of lumber ...
* Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad * Charles W. Kitts * Clover Valley Lumber Company * Crane Creek Lumber Company * Crescent City and Smith River Railroad * Del Norte Southern Railroad * Descanso, Alpine and Pacific Railway * Diamond Match Company * Duncan Mill Land and Lumber Company *
Eagle Mountain Railroad The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc. of Ontario, California. The EMRR is long and is located in Ri ...
* El Dorado Lumber Company *
Elk Creek Railroad The elk (''Cervus canadensis''), also known as the wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia. The common ...
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Fruit Growers Supply Company In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particul ...
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Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and ...
* Glen Blair Redwood Company * Glendale Railroad * Goodyear Redwood Lumber Company * Grande Ronde Pine Company *
Gualala River Railroad Gualala may refer to: In North America * Gualala, California, an unincorporated community 105 miles north of San Francisco * Gualala River, a river that has its mouth near Gualala, California *Gualala Point Regional Park Gualala Point Regional P ...
* Gualala River Railway * Hammond and Little River Redwood Company * Hammond Lumber Company * Hammond Redwood Lumber Company *
Hardy Creek and Eel River Railroad Hardy may refer to: People * Hardy (surname) * Hardy (given name) * Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica * Mount Hardy, Enderby Land * Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island * Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands Australia * Hardy, South ...
* Hobart Southern Railroad * Humboldt Bay and Trinidad Logging and Lumbering Company * Humboldt Logging Railway * Humboldt Lumber Mill Company * Humboldt Northern Railway * Hutchison Lumber Company *
Imperial Gypsum Company Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imperial, Nebraska * Imperial, Pennsylvania * Imperial, Texas ...
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L.E. White Lumber Company The pound ( arz, جنيه مصرى '; abbreviation: LE in Latin, in Arabic, historically also £E; ISO code: EGP) is the official currency of Egypt. It is divided into 100 piastres, or ersh ( ; ''plural'' ; abbreviation: PT), or 1,000 milli ...
( Greenwood Railroad) * Lake Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad *
Little River Redwood Company Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
* Long-Bell Lumber Company * Madera Sugar Pine Company * Mammoth Copper Mining Company *
Marsh Lumber Company A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at ...
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McCloud Railway The McCloud Railway was a class III railroad operated around Mount Shasta, California. It began operations on July 1, 1992, when it took over operations from the McCloud River Railroad. The MCR was incorporated on April 21, 1992. The MCR pro ...
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Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...
* Michigan–California Lumber Company * Minors Railroad * Mono Lake Lumber Company * Mono Lake Railway and Lumber Company * Navarro Lumber Company * Northern Redwood Lumber Company *
Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company {{Short pages monitor * Western Redwood Lumber Company *
Wood Sheldon Lumber Company Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...
* Yellow Aster Mining Company *
Yosemite Lumber Company The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. The company built the steepest logging incline ever, a route that tied the high-country timber tracts in Yosemite Natio ...
* Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Company


Notes


References

* * *Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in California
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See also

* List of San Francisco Bay Area trains


External links


Archival collections


Guide to Railroads in California by L. M. Clement.
Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. {{California railroads
California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...