The PacificRailroadSurveys 1853 1855 A series of explorations of the American West to explore possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America . The expeditions included surveyors ... country. ref cite web url http www.philaprintshop.com prrs.html title PacificRailroadSurveys ... and Parke. From surveys to construction The PacificRailroadSurveys provided valuable information ... Mcclellan and the War Department s PacificRailroad Explorations and Surveys of 1853 54 http www.philaprintshop.com prrs.html PacificRailroadSurveys 1855 1861 Ann Shelby Blum 1993 . Picturing Nature ... Fullerton Baird in United States and Mexican Boundary Survey and PacificRailroadSurveys External ... reports from the Library of Congress and the University of Michigan Commons PacificRailroadSurveys ... accessdate December 16, 2011 first Rebecca Cooper last Winter work Central PacificRailroad ... Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Davis ordered Brevet ..., Mr. Denver of the House Select Committee on the PacificRailroad and Telegraph reported that the necessity ... one. ref name winter Five surveys Five surveys were conducted. The Northern Pacific survey followed .... The Central PacificRailroad Central Pacific survey followed between the 37th parallel north and 39th ... two Southern Pacificsurveys. One along the 35th parallel north from Oklahoma to Los Angeles, California ... to build a transcontinental railroad . In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act . The Union PacificRailroad Company would build the railroads west from Omaha , and the Central PacificRailroad ... to 1860, the surveys contained significant material on natural history, including many illustrations of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In addition to describing the route, these surveys ... descriptions of the Native peoples encountered during the surveys. Background Starting in the late ... railroad routes across the west. However, no consensus route emerged due to the selfish economic ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name PacificRailroad logo filename logo size system map map caption marks locale Missouri start year 1849 in rail transport 1849 ref name mopac http www.mopac.org history mp.asp MPHS Missouri PacificRailroad History Bot generated title ref end year 1872 in rail transport 1872 ref name mopac predecessor line successor line Missouri PacificRailroad , br St. Louis San Francisco Railway length hq city The PacificRailroad was a railroad based in the U.S. state of Missouri . It was a predecessor of both the Missouri PacificRailroad and St. Louis San Francisco Railway . The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean . ref name mopac Due to a cholera epidemic in 1849, which was a citywide ... name mopac On December 9, 1852, the PacificRailroad had its inaugural run, traveling from its depot ... were completed, allowing the line to reach Pacific, Missouri Franklin . ref name mopac The Southwest Branch of the PacificRailroad was authorized in 1852 and split off as the Southwest PacificRailroad later the main line of the St. Louis San Francisco Railway in 1866. Financial difficulties meant that PacificRailroad did not reach Washington, Missouri Washington , eighteen miles away, until ... City , the state capital. ref name mopac By July 1858 the PacificRailroad reached Tipton, Missouri ... of Service accessdate 2006 04 20 DEFAULTSORT PacificRailroad Category Defunct Missouri railroads Category Defunct Kansas railroads Category Predecessors of the Missouri PacificRailroad Category ... Context Transprtation Bot generated title ref The railroad purchased its first steam locomotive ... the first railroad to serve Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City , after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War . In 1872, the PacificRailroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. See also List of defunct Kansas railroads List ... more details
Oregon PacificRailroad or Oregon Pacific Railway may refer to Oregon PacificRailroad 1880 1894 , railroad from Yaquina Bay Newport to Santiam Pass Oregon PacificRailroad 1997 , shortline railroad on the east side of Portland disambiguation ... more details
Atlantic and PacificRailroad may refer to Atlantic and PacificRailroad , incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 to connect Springfield, Missouri with the Pacific consisted of two separate lines in the Southwestern and Midwestern U.S. The general idea of a transcontinental railroad in the Americas Atlantic and PacificRailroad Illinois , 1865 1872, predecessor of the Milwaukee Road Atlantic and PacificRailroad Texas , incorporated by the New York state legislature in 1853 eventually became the Texas and Pacific Railway dab ... more details
Pacific Coast Railroad may refer to Pacific Coast Railway , a former narrow gauge system near San Luis Obispo, California Pacific Coast Railroad Washington , a former line near Seattle Pacific Coast Railroad tourist in Santa Margarita, California dab ... more details
For other entities named Western Pacific Western Pacific disambiguation Infobox rail railroad name Western PacificRailroad logo filename logo size system map 1930 D&RGW WP.jpg map caption 1930 Map of the Western ... end year 1983 predecessor line successor line Union PacificRailroad gauge railgauge ussg old gauge electrification length hq city San Francisco, California website The Western PacificRailroad reporting ... as an attempt to break the near monopoly the Southern PacificRailroad had on rail service into northern ... Union PacificRailroad Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City Ogden, Utah and Oakland, California for nearly 80 years. In 1983 the Western Pacific was acquired by the Union PacificRailroad ... train discontinued in 1970. History The original Western PacificRailroad 1862 1870 Western Pacific ..., California . This company was absorbed into the Central PacificRailroad in 1870. Founded in 1903, the second company to use the name Western PacificRailroad was part of the Gould family s efforts ... in 1900 as the Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad . The railroad that would become the Western Pacific ... . In 1909, it became the last railroad completed into California . In 1931 Western Pacific opened a main ... Pacific owned several connecting short line railroad s. The largest was the Sacramento Northern ..., the Southern PacificRailroad . In July 2005 Union Pacific unveiled a brand new EMD SD70ACe locomotive ... Western Pacific 913, an EMD F7 locomotive on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento ... larger Southern PacificRailroad , the WP became a company known for its innovation and for wringing ... Pacific s most famous and popular passenger train the railroad also operated a modest fleet ... Chicago and Oakland See also commons category Western PacificRailroad Portal Railways California Zephyr Central PacificRailroad Southern PacificRailroad Union PacificRailroad Western Refrigerator Line Western PacificRailroad Museum References No footnotes date October 2009 Reflist External ... more details
The Border PacificRailroad reporting mark BOP is a short line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas , United States . BOP operates a convert 31.6 mi km line from Rio Grande City to an interchange with Union Pacific via Rio Valley Switching Company at Mission, Texas . BOP traffic includes silica sand , ballast, crushed stone, asphalt , scrap paper , and feed grains. The line was opened in 1925 and became part of Missouri Pacific in 1956. Short line service started in 1984. External links http www.uprr.com customers shortline lines bop.shtml Link to Union Pacific Website with BOP Details Texas railroads DEFAULTSORT Border PacificRailroad Category Texas railroads Category Spin offs of the Union PacificRailroad Category Companies operating former Missouri PacificRailroad lines US rail company stub ... more details
Texas and PacificRailroad Depot may refer to Texas and PacificRailroad Depot Bunkie, Louisiana , National Register of Historic Places listings in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Texas and PacificRailroad Depot Natchitoches, Louisiana , National Register of Historic Places listings in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Texas and PacificRailroad Depot Abeline, Texas Texas and PacificRailroad Depot Bonham, Texas , National Register of Historic Places listings in Fannin County, Texas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fannin County, Texas T&P Station a Trinity Railway Express depot in Fort Worth, Texas on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Tarrant County, Texas . Texas and PacificRailroad Depot Marshall, Texas , an operational Amtrak station and Texas and Pacific Railway Museum in Marshall, Texas , which is part of the Ginocchio Historic District on the NRHP in Harrison County, Texas disambig de Texas and PacificRailroad Depot ... more details
Union PacificRailroad Depot or Union PacificRailroad Complex may refer to in the United States by state then city Greeley Union PacificRailroad Depot , Greeley, Colorado, listed on the NRHP in Weld County, Colorado Union PacificRailroad Julesburg Depot , Julesburg, Colorado, National Register of Historic Places listings in Sedgwick County, listed on the NRHP in Sedgwick County, Colorado Sterling Union PacificRailroad Depot , Sterling, Colorado, National Register of Historic Places listings in Logan County, Colorado listed on the NRHP in Logan County, Colorado Abilene Union PacificRailroad Freight Depot , Abilene, Kansas, National Register of Historic Places listings in Dickinson County, Kansas listed on the NRHP in Dickinson County, Kansas Abilene Union PacificRailroad Passenger Depot , Abilene, Kansas, National Register of Historic Places listings in Dickinson County, Kansas listed on the NRHP in Dickinson County, Kansas Union PacificRailroad Depot Concordia, Kansas , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cloud County, Kansas Union PacificRailroad Depot Solomon, Kansas , National Register of Historic Places listings in Dickinson County, Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dickinson County, Kansas Union PacificRailroad Passenger Depot , Topeka, Kansas, National Register of Historic Places listings in Shawnee County, Kansas listed on the NRHP in Shawnee County, Kansas Union PacificRailroad Depot Mammoth, Utah , National Register ... in Juab County, Utah Salt Lake Union PacificRailroad Station , Salt Lake City, Utah, listed on the NRHP in Salt Lake County, Utah Union PacificRailroad Depot Cheyenne, Wyoming , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Laramie County, Wyoming Union PacificRailroad Complex Evanston ... Register of Historic Places in Uinta County, Wyoming Union PacificRailroad Depot Rawlins, Wyoming ... Register of Historic Places in Carbon County, Wyoming disambig de Union PacificRailroad Depot ... more details
Missouri PacificRailroad Depot may refer to any of following former and active train stations previously used by the Missouri PacificRailroad , many of which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places NRHP by state then city Missouri Pacific Depot Altus , Altus, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Arkadelphia , Arkadelphia, AR, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Atkins , Atkins, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Bald Knob, Arkansas , List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Camden , Camden, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Clarksville , Clarksville, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Earle, Arkansas , List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Gurdon , Gurdon, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Hope , Hope, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Hot Springs , Hot Springs, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Malvern , Malvern, AR, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot McGehee , McGehee, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Newport , Newport, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Ozark , Ozark, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Prescott, Arkansas , List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri Pacific Depot Russellville , Russellville, AR, List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Missouri PacificRailroad Depot Sylamore, Arkansas , List of RHPs in AR listed on the NRHP ... in Missouri geodis de Missouri PacificRailroad Depot ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox rail railroad name Chicago Central and PacificRailroad logo filename logo size system map Chicago Central and Illinois Central route map 1996.png map caption Combined system map of Chicago Central red and Illinois Central Railroad Illinois Central railroads in 1996. map size 200 marks CC image CCP 2008 19930000 IL.jpg image size image caption A Chicago Central train passes westbound through northern Illinois in 1993 . locale Midwestern United States start year 1985 end year 1996 predecessor line Illinois Central Railroad successor line Illinois Central Railroad gauge railgauge ussg old gauge electrification length hq city Waterloo, Iowa website The Chicago Central and PacificRailroad Reporting mark CC was a Class II railroad operating on the former Illinois Central Railroad IC mainline between Chicago, Illinois , Albert Lea, Minnesota , Omaha, Nebraska , and Sioux City, Iowa . The railroad was formed as a spinoff from the IC, with operations beginning on December 24, 1985. The IC repurchased the railroad in 1996 and operated it as a subsidiary until the IC itself was purchased by Canadian National Railway CN . The company continues to exist as a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Corporation . External links commonscat inline Regional railroads DEFAULTSORT Chicago Central PacificRailroad Category Former regional railroads in the United States Category Railway companies established in 1985 Category Illinois railroads Category Iowa railroads Category Nebraska railroads Category Predecessors of the Illinois Central Railroad Category Canadian National Railway subsidiaries Category Spin offs of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Category Companies operating former Illinois Central Railroad lines Category Companies operating former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and PacificRailroad lines north of Cedar Rapids Category Companies operating former Chicago and North Western Transportation Company lines branch to Ida Grove and ex ... more details
The PacificRailroad Acts were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental ... grant grants of land to railroad companies. The PacificRailroad Act of 1862 12 Stat. 489 ... additional amending Acts The PacificRailroad Act of 1863 12 Stat. 807 , PacificRailroad Act of 1864 13 Stat. 356 , PacificRailroad Act of 1865 13 Stat. 504 , and PacificRailroad Act of 1866 14 ... Congress 34th Congress by the Select Committee on the PacificRailroad and Telegraph. ref http cprr.org Museum HR Report 358 1856.html Report of the Select Committee on the PacificRailroad and Telegraph Including a Minority Report and Proposed PacificRailroad Acts 34th Congress, 1st Session. Report ... year government bond s at 6 percent to the Union PacificRailroad and Central PacificRailroad later the Southern PacificRailroad companies in order to construct a transcontinental railroad . Section ... Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 03 12 Stat. 489 2 ref Section 3 granted an additional ... Office . ref http www.cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 03 12 Stat. 489 3 ref The U.S. Government PacificRailroad Bonds were authorized by Section 5 to be issued to the companies at the rate ... Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 05 12 Stat. 489 5 ref Section 11 of the Act provided ... Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 11 12 Stat. 489 11 ref The U.S. Government Bonds constituted ... railway stations. File PacificRailroad Act of 1862 Original Manuscript.jpg thumb 600px center First and last pages of the original manuscript of the PacificRailroad Act of 1862 12 Stat. 489 signed ... gauge The act of March 3, 1863 12 Sta. 807 ref http www.cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1863 12 Stat. 807 ref was AN ACT to establish the gauge of the Pacificrailroad and its branches. Be it enacted ..., That the gauge of the Pacificrailroad and its branches throughout their whole extent, from ... Central PacificRailroad Union PacificRailroad History of rail transport in the United States ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name California PacificRailroad logo filename logo size old gauge marks locale Vallejo Sacramento Napa Calistoga Davis Marysville successor line Southern PacificRailroad start year 1865 end year 1876 hq city San Francisco, California The California PacificRailroad Company ... the California PacificRailroad Extension Company in the spring of 1869, then renamed the California PacificRailroad later that same year. The railroad was constructed just months prior to the completion of the Central PacificRailroad Central Pacific Union Pacific First Transcontinental ... mi km . That line was constructed by Leland Stanford s Central PacificRailroad subsidiary the Western PacificRailroad 1862 1870 Western PacificRailroad of 1862 . The route over Altamont Pass was completed in 1869. This railroad is unrelated to the Western PacificRailroad of 1916 that ran to Salt ... PacificRailroad Company . January 15, 1870 construction completed Washington, California Sacramento and railroad ceases to be operated by builder, D.C. Haskin. Operation by California Pacific begins. July 1871 Central Pacific offer to buy railroad but offer is rejected. Central Pacific announces ... difficulties caused by the flooding of December 1871, is sold to the Central PacificRailroad ... PacificRailroad. SP also acquires the Northern Railway , a subsidiary paper railroad of the SP. 1888 listed in ICC reports as a non operating subsidiary of Southern PacificRailroad. April 14, 1898 the railroad is sold to the Southern PacificRailroad. The Southern PacificRailroad Southern ... known as the Cal P after the original builder of the line, the California PacificRailroad. Other Cal P lines Napa Valley Railroad California Pacific purchased the Napa Valley Rail Road at foreclosure ... from Davis to Woodland was later operated by the Southern PacificRailroad Southern Pacific ... DEFAULTSORT California PacificRailroad Category Defunct California railroads Category Predecessors ... more details
for the much earlier railroad of the same name Oregon PacificRailroad 1880 1894 Infobox SG rail railroad name Oregon PacificRailroad logo filename logo size 126 marks OPR locale Oregon , United States start year 1997 hq city Portland, Oregon Oregon PacificRailroad reporting mark OPR is a short line railroad operating two disconnected routes one in southeast Portland, Oregon and the former Southern PacificRailroad Southern Pacific Molalla Branch between Canby, Oregon Canby and Liberal, Oregon . Image EPTC 901 Canby2.jpg thumb left 250px Oregon Pacific 901, an EMD SW8 parked in the American Steel ... as the Molalla Western Railroad, but after a few years both railroads were combined under the Oregon PacificRailroad banner. Today, the Oregon Pacific continues to operate its two railroads to provide ... GE GE 70 ton switcher 70 ton 1949 Southern PacificRailroad Southern Pacific Stored out of service ... Oregon railroads DEFAULTSORT Oregon PacificRailroad 1997 Category Oregon railroads Category ... the rights to salvage the remnants of the Portland Traction Company s remaining freight railroad between Portland and Boring, Oregon. The Portland Terminal Railroad was once an interurban railroad but was owned 50 50 by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads since the mid 1950s to handle ... to housing. Some of the last shipments along the railroad was TriMet s first light rail cars ... railroad company and ran trains from OMSI to Portland s Sellwood, Portland, Oregon Sellwood neighborhood ... made from an old flatcar and a converted former logging railroad caboose. While the excursion trains eventually stopped running, the Oregon PacificRailroad continues to host special excursions featuring the popular Holiday Express trains featuring the Southern Pacific 4449 , Spokane, Portland & Seattle ..., the Oregon Pacific expanded its operations by leasing the Southern Pacific s Molalla Branch connecting ... to the Portland Milwaukie Line 101 GE GE 80 ton switcher 80 ton 1956 Pacific Lumber Company Stored ... more details
The Orland, Newville and PacificRailroad is a RailGauge 15 rail gauge gauge railroad ref name railserve cite web url http www.railserve.com Models Live Steam Clubs North America title Live Steam Clubs & Railroads of all Scale & Gauge publisher Railserve.com accessdate March 14, 2010 ref built to a scale of 5 to the foot. It is located in Orland, California , on the Glenn County Fairgrounds located on East Yolo Street. As of 2008, it has been operating at the same location for 15 years. See also List of heritage railways References Reflist External links http www.orland ca.com Clubs Railroad railroad.html Railroad s website http onprailroad.tripod.com Official Website 15 inch gauge railways coord missing Glenn County, California DEFAULTSORT Orland, Newville And PacificRailroad Category Transportation in Glenn County, California Category Miniature railways Category Visitor attractions in Glenn County, California Category 15 inch gauge railways ... more details
Cleanup date May 2007 Infobox SG rail railroad name Central PacificRailroad locale Sacramento, CA Ogden, Utah start year 1863 end year April 1, 1885 but continued as an Southern PacificRailroad SP leased ... CPRR.jpg thumb 240px Trestle, Central PacificRailroad, c.1869. Photo Carleton Watkins Image The Last ... PacificRailroad CPRR is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah , USA ... PacificRailroad . Many 19th century national proposals to build a transcontinental railroad ... stores. ref http cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 03 PacificRailroad Act of 1862, 2 ref Authorization and construction Planned by Theodore Judah , the Central PacificRailroad ... emigrant workers with up to 12,000 such laborers employed by the Central PacificRailroad representing ... the first rails in 1863. The Golden spike , connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific .... In 1885 the Central PacificRailroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company . Technically the CPRR ... by the Union PacificRailroad Union Pacific , which purchased Southern Pacific in 1996. The Union ... of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains . ref http www.cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 05 PacificRailroad Act of 1862 5 ref Sec. 11 of the Act also provided that the issuance ... Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 11 PacificRailroad Act of 1862 11 ref The U.S. Government Bonds ... by the company as and when they became due. Sec. 10 of the 1864 amending PacificRailroad ... Bonds ref http cprr.org Museum Bond Adv CPRR 1867.html FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THE CENTRAL PACIFICRAILROAD ... over the original Government Bonds. ref http www.cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1864 10 PacificRailroad Act of 1864 10 ref Local and state governments also aided the financing, although ... m by convert 10 mi km . ref http www.cprr.org Museum PacificRailroad Acts.html 1862 03 PacificRailroad ... Act. File San Francisco PacificRailroad Bond WPRR 1865.jpg thumb left An 1865 San Francisco ... more details
The Pacific Coast Railroad is a RailGauge 36 narrow gauge railway narrow gauge tourist railroad located at the Santa Margarita Ranch in Santa Margarita, California . Established in 2000 by San Luis Obispo entrepreneur Rob Rossi, it sees only limited public operation. Phase 1 consisted of a convert 1.5 mi km abbr on loop around the most historic part of the ranch. The railroad currently operates three steam locomotives built between 1897 and 1968, and four of the original Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad Retlaw One coaches. One of them, the 2 Roger Linn , was used in the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman TV show. Other equipment includes an ex International Railways of Central America caboose and business car Cuscatlan and several ex Denver & Rio Grande freight cars. External links http pcrailroad.wordpress.com Pacific Coast Railroad blog coord missing San Luis Obispo County, California DEFAULTSORT Pacific Coast Railroad tourist Category Heritage railroads in California Category Visitor attractions in San Luis Obispo County, California Category Transportation in San Luis Obispo County, California US rail transport stub ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Missouri PacificRailroad logo filename Missouri Pacific Herald.png logo ... Railroad successor line Union PacificRailroad Union Pacific hq city St. Louis, Missouri The Missouri PacificRailroad reporting mark MP , also known as the MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United ... and Pacific Railway TP , Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad C&EI , St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico ... PacificRailroad was purchased by the Union PacificRailroad . Because of lawsuits filed by various ... for the PacificRailroad began what would later be known as the Missouri PacificRailroad. The first ... City , after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War . In 1872 the PacificRailroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railway by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. Because of corporate ties extending back to the PacificRailroad, Missouri Pacific at one time advertised itself as being The First Railroad West of the Mississippi . From 1879 Missouri Pacific was under ... and reorganized as the Missouri PacificRailroad . Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling ... Railroad , and the Texas and Pacific Railway . MoPac declared bankruptcy again in 1933, during the Great ... newer locomotives, more locomotives and operated more track than partner Union PacificRailroad . On December 22, 1982 the Missouri Pacific merged with Union Pacific and Western PacificRailroad companies ... , the Scenic Limited operated over the Western PacificRailroad. A second premier train, the Sunshine ... volume, becoming the signature train of the Missouri PacificRailroad. An advertising slogan in 1933 ... Missouri Pacific System Former Class I DEFAULTSORT Missouri PacificRailroad Category Missouri PacificRailroad Category Companies based in St. Louis, Missouri Category Predecessors of the Union Pacific ... in 1997 de Missouri PacificRailroad fr Missouri PacificRailroad nl Missouri PacificRailroad sl Missouri PacificRailroad ... more details
The Southern PacificRailroad of Mexico reporting mark SPM ref Railway Equipment and Publication Company , http books.google.com books?id 1A3WAAAAMAAJ&pg PT536 The Official Railway Equipment Register , June 1917, p. 663 ref was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company in Mexico , operating from Nogales, Sonora , to Mazatl n, Sinaloa . The Sonora Railway Company began construction in 1880 and opened a link to Nogales in 1882 it was a subsidiary of the American Sante Fe line and was subsidized by the Mexican government. The Southern Pacific bought the Sonora Railway Company in 1898 and operated it as the Southern Pacific of Mexico until 1951. File Southern Pacific Company system map 1918 .svg thumb right Southern Pacific Transportation Company Southern Pacific Company system in 1918 The main line ran 260 miles from the Sonoran town of Nogales, just across the border from Arizona, to the city of Guadalajara , stopping at several northwestern cities and port towns along the way. Owned by the Southern Pacific Company, which operated a highly profitable railroad system north of the border, the SP de Mex transported millions of passengers as well as millions of tons of freight over the years, both within Mexico and across its northern border. Lewis 2007 reports it rarely turned ..., CA http www.jstor.org stable 1007297 online review Robert A. Trennert, Jr., The Southern PacificRailroad of Mexico, The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 Aug., 1966 , pp. 265 284 http ... PacificRailroad Of Mexico Category Defunct railway companies of Mexico Category Southern PacificRailroad Mexico Mexico rail transport stub ... imperialism that kept the company committed to the railroad long after it ceased to make business ... Pacific of Mexico, 1880 1951 isbn 0816526044 unused data publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ cite book author Signor, John R. and Kirchner, John year 1987 title The Southern Pacific of Mexico ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Richmond PacificRailroad logo filename logo size old gauge marks RPRC locale Richmond, California start year July 1950 as Parr Terminal Railroad end year Present hq city Richmond, California website http www.levinterminal.com Pages.aspx Rail Services levinterminal.com Pages.aspx Rail Services The Richmond PacificRailroad Reporting mark RPRC is a terminal railroad owned by the Levin Richmond Terminal Corporation . The RPRC operates on convert 2.5 mi km of track in the shipping terminal and wharves at Richmond, California . The RPRC also interchanges with the Union Pacific UP and BNSF Railway BNSF . The shipping tariff is a flat rate of 210 per car or 310 per hazardous material car. The railroad operates two shifts, between 6 a.m. 10 p.m. The railroad switches about 3,250 cars per year. The RPRC was formerly known as the Parr Terminal Railroad Reporting mark PRT . Image Richmond PacificRailroad RPRC Switcher 1268.JPG thumb 300px right RPRC 1268 performing switching operations. History The PRT was incorporated in July 1950 as a Train station Terminus stations terminal railroad to take over the private railroad of Parr Richmond Industrial Corporation . In 1911, Terminal 1 was constructed as the primary port of the Port of Richmond, CA Port of Richmond . In the 1930s the City of Richmond entered an agreement with the Parr Company to operate the terminal. The terminal area was primarily used to unload oil crude from ship to storage tanks that supplied the local oil refineries . It also was used to transfer ship cargo to rail cars. The terminal was used as a ferry terminal prior to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge . During World War II the U.S. ... accessdate December 6, 2005 Further reading List of California railroads Pacific Rail News , May 1996 issue. California railroads DEFAULTSORT Richmond PacificRailroad Category Switching and terminal ... isbn 0 89024 290 9 cite book author Walker, Mike title Steam Powered Video s Comprehensive Railroad ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Puget Sound and PacificRailroad marks PSAP locale Washington U.S. state Washington start year 1997 hq city Elma, Washington Elma length convert 177 mi km ref name trains mag The Puget Sound and PacificRailroad reporting mark PSAP is headquartered in Elma, Washington . The company began operations on August 30, 1997, when the line was purchased from the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway BNSF by the ParkSierra Railgroup. The ParkSierra Railgroup was purchased in January 2002 by RailAmerica . ref name trains mag cite journal date June 2010 title RailAmerica s Empire journal Trains Magazine publisher Kalmbach Publishing ref The PS&P Interchange freight rail interchanges with BNSF and Union PacificRailroad near Centralia, Washington . From there, the line reaches west to Grays Harbor, Washington , and Northeast to Bangor, Washington , a total of nearly convert 80 mi . This line serves Naval Base Kitsap with its only rail connection to the rest of the North American rail network. Much of the line was originally constructed by the Puget Sound & Grays Harbor Railroad in 1890. The Northern Pacific Railway purchased this line from Summit, Washington , to Montesano, Washington Montesano shortly after the PS&GH started operations. The NP then completed a line from Centralia to Elma and from Montesano to Grays Harbor bringing rail service to Grays Harbor in 1892. The railroad s main commodities are timber products, as well as chemicals. The PSAP hauled around 30,000 carloads in 2010. ref name chronline.com cite web title Puget Sound and PacificRailroad ... U.S. state railroads DEFAULTSORT Puget Sound PacificRailroad Category Washington state railroads ... Railway Category Companies operating former Northern Pacific Railway lines Category Companies operating former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and PacificRailroad lines Chehalis Curtis US rail company stub de Puget Sound and PacificRailroad ... more details
Refimprove date September 2009 Infobox SG rail railroad name Western PacificRailroad Museum logo filename ... NV 2004 WPRRHS Convention e.jpg image caption Western PacificRailroad WP EMD FP7 FP7 Western Pacific 805 A 805 A from the Western PacificRailroad Museum, on display in Sparks, Nevada in 2004. This locomotive ... railroad museum 2006.jpg thumb 260px A typical equipment lineup at the museum The Western Pacific ... of the Western PacificRailroad and is operated by the Feather River Rail Society reporting mark ... September 2009 ref , founded in 1983. ref citeweb title Western PacificRailroad Historical Society ... to the Western PacificRailroad Museum at Portola accessdate 2010 06 22 url http wplives.org visitthewprm.html ref Overview Image FRRSWPlogos.jpg thumb left Logos of the Western PacificRailroad and the Feather River Rail Society, operators of the Western PacificRailroad Museum. Museum collection ... steam locomotive ref citeweb title Western PacificRailroad Museum at Portola Locomotive Roster ... name steam citeweb title Western PacificRailroad Museum Steam Department accessdate 2010 06 22 url ... http zephyrproject.com WP 805A wp 805a.html ref Southern Pacific 4450 Southern PacificRailroad s SP ... PacificRailroad World highlight seven key railfan ning locations on the Feather River Route of the Western PacificRailroad in the Feather River Canyon crossing the Sierra Nevada U.S. Sierra ... courses. Operating a locomotive One of the most famous aspects of the Western PacificRailroad Museum ... PacificRailroad Museum. http www.railpictures.net showphotos.php?location Portola 20Railroad 20Museum RailPictures.Net PRM &ndash More Western PacificRailroad Museum photographs. Under the Portola name Western PacificRailroad Plumas County, California collapse state collapsed California railroads coord 39 48 13.86 N 120 28 34.46 W display title DEFAULTSORT Western PacificRailroad Museum Category Railroad museums in California Category Western PacificRailroad Category California railroads Category ... more details
The Sioux City and PacificRailroad was a railroad in the U.S. state s of Iowa and Nebraska . Built as a connection from Sioux City, IA Sioux City to the Union PacificRailroad at Fremont, NE Fremont , it became ... Bluffs, September 2003 ref History The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 defined a network of branches that would begin at the Missouri River and join the main line of the Union PacificRailroad in or near ... Union PacificRailroad Blair Bridge opened in late 1883, replacing the car ferry across the Missouri ... trackside References reflist DEFAULTSORT Sioux City PacificRailroad Category Defunct Iowa railroads ... of the Union Pacific UP . The east west portion from Fremont to Missouri Valley, Iowa Missouri Valley ... 1862 07 01 ref but an 1864 amendment released the UP from this obligation, allowing any railroad arriving at Sioux City from the east, or any newly incorporated railroad, to construct the line and gain the associated land grant s. ref USStatute 38 216 13 356 1864 07 02 ref The Sioux City and PacificRailroad was organized for this purpose in August 1864, and soon came under common ownership with the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad , a land grant company, leased by the Chicago and North ... 1867. To build the portion in Nebraska, the Northern Nebraska Air Line Railroad was incorporated in June 1867 and merged into the Sioux City and Pacific in September 1868. ref name ICC Interstate Commerce ... City and Pacific in July 1871 , where the Sioux City and Pacific, funded by the Cedar Rapids ... 1870 until July 1884, the Sioux City and Pacific operated the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad , which continued northwest from Fremont into northwestern Nebraska. The Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad opened the first eastern connection to Sioux ... River and the connecting Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad , which had jointly purchased the Sioux City and Pacific in 1880. Operations remained separate until August 1901, when the C&NW leased and soon ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Saint Paul and PacificRailroad logo filename logo size system map map ... Great Northern Railway U.S. Great Northern Railway hq city Saint Paul, Minnesota The Saint Paul and PacificRailroad also known as the St. Paul & PacificRailroad and the SP&P was a shortline railroad ... as the Minnesota and PacificRailroad, it was the state s first active railroad. ref name Malone31 ... and PacificRailroad. The SP&P went bankrupt as well. It was taken over by James Jerome Hill and others, who used the railroad as the basis for building the Great Northern Railway U.S. Great Northern ... to the Minnesota and PacificRailroad to build a standard gauge railway from Stillwater, Minnesota ... railroad though not necessarily the state s first railroad , ref name Malone31 the Minnesota and Pacific ... name Malone34 Malone, p. 34. ref Saint Paul and Pacific In 1862, the state legislature reorganized the bankrupt railroad as the St. Paul and PacificRailroad. ref name Malone34 That same year, convert ... Press, 1996. Smalley, Eugene Virgil. History of the Northern PacificRailroad. New York G.P. Putnam ... Saint Paul and PacificRailroad Category Railway companies established in 1857 Category Railway .... ref Malone, p. 33 34. ref But speculators manipulated the nascent railroad s profits, overcharged .... ref Only convert 210 mi km of track had been laid as of 1865. ref name Lovoll39 The railroad built ... of towns every eight miles along its length, and was the leading railroad helping to colonize Minnesota. ref Lovoll, p. 40. ref In December 1870, the Northern Pacific Railway purchased the SP&P. ref name Ingham807 ref Malone, p. 36. ref But the Northern Pacific went bankrupt in the Panic ... very valuable land grants and saw the potential of the railroad. ref Malone, p. 37 38. ref Hill convinced ... Mount Stephen George Stephen Smith s cousin and a wealthy railroad executive to invest 5.5 million in purchasing the railroad. ref Malone, p. 38 41. ref On March 13, 1878, the Dutch formally signed ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Northwestern PacificRailroad old gauge convert 80 mi km of system originally ... The Northwestern PacificRailroad Reporting mark NWP is a regional railroad that serves the North ... the Northwestern Pacific and achieve a single railroad the entire length of the line by 1914. Gauges ... its interests to the Southern PacificRailroad SP , which assumed full control. Beginning in 1990 ... PacificRailroad main line navbar mini California Midland Railroad extended the Eel River and Eureka .... California Northwestern Railway formed in 1898 for Southern PacificRailroad to assume control ... at Ignacio in 1888. North Pacific Coast Railroad built a RailGauge 36 gauge line from Sausalito .... Became North Shore Railroad in 1902. North Shore Railroad formed to assume control of the North Pacific ... for Southern PacificRailroad to assume control of logging lines around Arcata, California Arcata ... and Eureka Railway formed by Southern PacificRailroad in 1903 to build a connection from Willits ... PacificRailroad SF&NP built from Donahue landing on the Petaluma River to Santa Rosa, California ... first2 Paul C. title Northwestern PacificRailroad year 2006 publisher Arcadia Publishing isbn ... by Marin & Napa in 1888. History In the late 1800s both the Southern PacificRailroad and the Santa ... ceremony and celebration was held to mark the accomplishment. The Southern PacificRailroad SP controlled ... PacificRailroad convention of distance from San Francisco, California ref Gale & Valles 1978 ... Northwestern PacificRailroad under public ownership. The goals of the new Northwestern PacificRailroad ... ex San Francisco and San Jose Railroad 2 then San Francisco and North PacificRailroad 1 retired 1920 5 Booth 4 4 0 1873 17 ex San Francisco and North PacificRailroad 5 scrapped 1911 6 Booth 4 4 0 1870 14 ex San Francisco and North PacificRailroad 2 destroyed by boiler explosion 1915 ref name Stindt 1974 p.44 Stindt 1974 p.44 ref 7 Booth 4 4 0 1870 15 ex San Francisco and North PacificRailroad ... more details
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