The Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad was incorporated on May 1, 1895, to serve the coal mines of the San Francisco & San Joaquin Coal Company at
Corral Hollow
Corral Hollow, formed by Corral Hollow Creek, is a canyon partially located in Alameda County, with parts in San Joaquin County, southwest of Tracy, California. Corral Hollow Creek, formerly El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres (The Creek of the Good ...
. The line ran from
Tesla (located in the Corral Hollow canyon southeast of
Corral Hollow Pass
Corral Hollow Pass, originally Portezuela de Buenos Ayres (Pass of Good Winds) is a low mountain pass in the Diablo Range southeast of Livermore, in Alameda County, California. This pass, at an elevation of 1600 ft, was the point where El Cami ...
) to
Carbona just south of
Tracy and then up to
Lathrop and
Stockton. The line was constructed in 1895. On July 25, 1903, the line was sold to the
Western Pacific Railway
The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route dir ...
(WP).
Route
The line from Tesla to Carbona was abandoned by the WP in January 1916, however an April 1916 timetable continued to show that line.
*Tesla (Corral Hollow)
*Harrietville
*Walden Pottery
*Carnegie
*Manganese
*River Rock
*Kerlinger
*Carbona (near present-day Union Pacific CP F072)
The remainder of the line from Carbona to Stockton became the WP's mainline (today's
Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
) route from Tracy to Stockton.
*Carbona
*Tracy (CP F074)
*Lyoth (CP F075)
*Wyche (CP F082/F083)
*Lathrop (CP F084/F087)
Sharpe Army Depot
Stockton Metropolitan Airport is a joint civil-military airport three miles southeast of downtown Stockton, a city in San Joaquin County, California. It is owned by the County of San Joaquin.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems ca ...
*
French Camp
*Ortega (CP F090)
*Stockton Yard (CP F091/F092)
*Stockton Tower (CP F093)
References
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Defunct California railroads
History of the San Joaquin Valley
Predecessors of the Western Pacific Railroad
Railway companies established in 1895
Railway companies disestablished in 1903
Diablo Range
1895 establishments in California