The following
railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
s operate in the
U.S. state
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of
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
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Common freight carriers
Freight carrier information is current .
Other
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Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) at
Mare Island
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Oakland Global Rail Enterprise (OGRE) at the
Port of Oakland
The Port of Oakland is the port authority for the city of Oakland, California, United States. Its primary responsibilities are the operation of the Oakland Seaport and the Oakland International Airport. It also operates a commercial real est ...
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West Oakland Pacific Railroad
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Port of Oakland Railway (POAK)
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Southern California Railroad (SCRR) in
Plaster City
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USG Corporation (USG) in
Plaster City
Passenger carriers
Intercity
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
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California Zephyr
The ''California Zephyr'' is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville station, Emeryville), via Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Denver, Sa ...
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Coast Starlight
The ''Coast Starlight'' is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States between Seattle and Los Angeles via Portland, Oregon, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area. The train, ...
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Southwest Chief
The ''Southwest Chief'' (formerly the ''Southwest Limited'' and ''Super Chief'') is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and American Southwest ...
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Sunset Limited
The ''Sunset Limited'' is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a route between New Orleans and Los Angeles. Major stops include Houston, San Antonio and El Paso in Texas, as well as Tucson, Arizona. Opening in 1894 thr ...
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Texas Eagle
The ''Texas Eagle'' is a long-distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days per week, t ...
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Amtrak California
Amtrak California is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak regional rail routes in Californiathe ''Capitol Corridor'', the ''Pacific Surfliner'', and the ...
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Capitol Corridor
The ''Capitol Corridor'' is a passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, California, San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, California, Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two ...
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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 ''Pacific Surfliner'' is Amtrak's third-busiest service (exceeded in ridership only ...
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San Joaquins''
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California High-Speed Rail
California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system being developed in California by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Phase 1, about long, is planned to run from San Francisco, California, San Francisco to ...
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Brightline West
Brightline West is a proposed privately run high-speed rail route, currently in early construction, to link the Las Vegas Valley and Rancho Cucamonga in Greater Los Angeles through the California high desert via Interstate 15. The line will ...
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Commuter rail
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Altamont Corridor Express (ACE)
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Caltrain
Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a commuter rail line in California, serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose, California, San Jose at the Tamien station with weekday r ...
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Coaster (SDNX)
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Metrolink (SCAX)
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Arrow
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Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART)
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North Valley Rail (planned)
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 and of track, including eBART, a spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connecto ...
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eBART
eBART (East Contra Costa County BART extension) is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) branch line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in eastern Contra Costa County, California, United States. The lin ...
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Oakland Airport Connector (
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 ...
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Los Angeles Metro Rail
The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California, United States, consisting of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), ...
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San Francisco Municipal Railway
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni ) is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California. It operates a system of List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines, bus routes (including Trolleybuses in San Franc ...
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Muni Metro
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Market Street Railway (
E Embarcadero and
F Market & Wharves
The F Market & Wharves line is one of several light rail lines in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other lines in the system, the F line runs as a heritage streetcar service, almost exclusively using historic equipment from San Francisco' ...
lines)
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San Francisco cable car system
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated Cable car (railway), cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco. The system forms part of the Intermodal passenger transport, intermodal urban transport net ...
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OC Streetcar (under construction)''
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SacRT light rail
The SacRT light rail system serves the Sacramento, California area. It is operated by the Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) and has of network comprising three main lines on standard gauge tracks, 53 stations, and a fleet of 121 lig ...
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San Diego Trolley
The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system serving San Diego County, California. The trolley's operator, San Diego Trolley, Inc. , is a subsidiary of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The trolley operates as a critical componen ...
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VTA light rail
The VTA light rail system serves San Jose, California, San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and has of network comprising three main lines on stan ...
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Sprinter (SDNX)
Excursion
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Calico and Odessa Railroad (C&OR)
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Fillmore and Western Railway (FWRY)
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Napa Valley Wine Train (NVRR)
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Niles Canyon Railway (NCRY)
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Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad
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Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line (service temporarily suspended)
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Poway-Midland Railroad
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Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad (RCBT)
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Sacramento Southern Railroad (SSRR)
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Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway (SCBG)
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Sierra Railroad
The Sierra Railroad Corporation is a privately owned common carrier. Its Sierra Northern Railway freight division handles all freight operations for all branches owned by the Sierra Railroad. The company's Mendocino Railway group operates t ...
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California Western Railroad (also known as the Skunk Train) (CWR)
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Sacramento RiverTrain (SYPD)
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Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM)
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Western Railway Museum
The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on California State Route 12, Highway 12 between Rio Vista, California, Rio Vista and Suisun, California, Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the
Sacrament ...
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Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSP)
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Yreka Western Railroad
The Yreka Western Railroad Company was a shortline railroad that operated freight train, freight trains and passenger excursions between the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad, Central Oregon & Pacific interchange at Montague, CA, Montague and ...
(YW)
Amusement park
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Disneyland Monorail
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Disneyland Railroad
The Disneyland Railroad (DRR), formerly known as the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, is a 3-foot () narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge heritage railway, heritage railroad and attraction in the Disneyland theme park of the Disneyland Resort in ...
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Ghost Town & Calico Railroad
Defunct railroads
Private carriers
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Albion Lumber Company
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American River Land and Lumber Company
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Arcata and Mad River Railroad
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Bayside Logging Railroad
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Bear Harbor and Eel River Railroad
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Birch and Smart Railroad
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Brookings Lumber and Box Company
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Butte and Plumas Railway
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C.D. Danaher Pine Company
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California Door Company
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California Redwood Company
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Camino, Cable and Northern Railroad
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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 ...
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Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad
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Charles W. Kitts
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Clover Valley Lumber Company
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Crane Creek Lumber Company
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Crescent City and Smith River Railroad
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Del Norte Southern Railroad
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Descanso, Alpine and Pacific Railway
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Diamond Match Company
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Duncan Mill Land and Lumber Company
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El Dorado Lumber Company
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Elk Creek Railroad
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Feather River Pine Mills, Inc.
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Fruit Growers Supply Company
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Georgia-Pacific
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Glen Blair Redwood Company
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Glendale Railroad
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Goodyear Redwood Lumber Company
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Grande Ronde Pine Company
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Gualala River Railroad
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Gualala River Railway
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Hammond and Little River Redwood Company
Hammond may refer to:
People
* Hammond Innes (1913–1998), English novelist
* Hammond (surname)
* Justice Hammond (disambiguation)
Places Antarctica
* Hammond Glacier, Antarctica
Australia
*Hammond, South Australia, a small settlement in South ...
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Hammond Lumber Company
Hammond Lumber Company was a logging and resource extraction company operating in Humboldt County, CA.
History
In 1892, Vance Lumber Company purchased the Humboldt Bay frontage from Samoa Land and Improvement Company for construction of a large s ...
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Hammond Redwood Lumber Company
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Hardy Creek and Eel River Railroad
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Hobart Southern Railroad
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Humboldt Bay and Trinidad Logging and Lumbering Company
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Humboldt Logging Railway
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Humboldt Lumber Mill Company
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Humboldt Northern Railway
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Hutchison Lumber Company
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Imperial Gypsum Company
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Kaiser Steel (
Eagle Mountain Railroad)
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L.E. White Lumber Company (
Greenwood Railroad)
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Lake Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad
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Little River Redwood Company
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Long-Bell Lumber Company
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Madera Sugar Pine Company
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Mammoth Copper Mining Company
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Marsh Lumber Company
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McCloud Railway
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Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company
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Michigan–California Lumber Company
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Minors Railroad
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Mono Lake Lumber Company
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Mono Lake Railway and Lumber Company
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Navarro Lumber Company
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Northern Redwood Lumber Company
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Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company
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Pacific Coast Borax Company (
Borate and Daggett Railroad)
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Pacific Lumber Company
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Pacific Portland Cement Company
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Parr-Richmond Industrial Corporation
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PeopleMover
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Pittsburg Railroad
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R.E. Danaher Company
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Rainbow Mill and Lumber Company
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Raymond Granite Company
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Read Timber and Lumber Company
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Red River Lumber Company
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Red Rock Railroad
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Rockport Redwood Company
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Selby Smelting and Lead Company
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Shaver Lake Lumber Company (
Shaver Lake Railroad)
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Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company
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Siskiyou Electric Light and Power Company
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Sonoma Magnesite Tramway
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South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company
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Southwestern Portland Cement Company
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Stearns Lumber Company
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Stone Canyon and Pacific Railway
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Sugar Pine Lumber Company
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Tecopa Railroad
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Ten Mile Railroad
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Terry Lumber Company (
Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad)
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Towle Brothers Company
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Tulare Valley Railroad
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Union Lumber Company (
Fort Bragg Railroad)
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Union Sugar Company
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Usal Redwood Company
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Viewliner Train of Tomorrow
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Watsonville Traction Company
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Weed Lumber Company
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West Side Flume and Lumber Company
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West Side Lumber Company railway
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Western Meat Company
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Western Plant Services, Inc.
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Western Redwood Lumber Company
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Wood Sheldon Lumber Company
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Yellow Aster Mining Company
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Yosemite Lumber Company
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Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Company
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Notes
References
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*Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in California' (
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*Santa Fe Railroad (1945), ''Along Your Way'',
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,
Chicago, Illinois
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See also
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History of rail transportation in California
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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.
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California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
Railroads
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...