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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 ...

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Common freight carriers

Freight carrier information is current .

Other

* Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) * Oakland Global Rail Enterprise (OGRE) ** West Oakland Pacific Railroad ** Port of Oakland Railway (POAK) * Southern California Railroad (SCRR) * USG Corporation (USG)

Passenger carriers

Intercity

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 ...

(AMTK): '' California Zephyr'', ''

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 ...

'', '' Southwest Chief'', '' Sunset Limited'' *

Amtrak California Amtrak California is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak commuter rail routes in Californiathe ''Capitol Corridor'', the ''Pacific Surfliner'', and the ...

(CDTX): ''

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 ...

'' and '' San Joaquin'' *''

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 ...

(under construction)''

Commuter rail

* Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) * Arrow *

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 Coaster (stylized as COASTER) is a commuter rail service in the central and northern coastal regions of San Diego County, California, United States operated by the North County Transit District (NCTD). The commuter rail line features eight s ...

(SDNX) * Metrolink (SCAX) * Peninsula Commute * Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART)

Local

* Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) **

eBART eBART (East Contra Costa County BART extension) is the project name for 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, ...

Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line The Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line, also known informally as the BART to OAK line, is an automated guideway transit (AGT) system operated by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) between BART's Coliseum station and Oakland International ...

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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 The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni), is the public transit system for the City and County of San Francisco. It operates a system of bus routes (including trolleybuses), the Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cabl ...

(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 * ''

OC Streetcar The OC Streetcar is a modern streetcar ( LRT) line currently under construction in Orange County, California, running through the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove. The electric-powered streetcar will be operated by the Orange County Tran ...

(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 ...

(SDTI) *

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

* Calico and Odessa Railroad (C&OR) *

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 The Napa Valley Wine Train is a privately operated excursion train that runs between Napa and St. Helena, California. Much of the rail line parallels State Route 29 after leaving the City of Napa and passes the towns of Yountville, Rutherfor ...

(NVRR) *

Niles Canyon Railway The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

(NCRY) * Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad * Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line (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 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 th ...

(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 The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) in Portola, California, known as the Portola Railroad Museum until January 1, 2006, is a heritage railroad and archives that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment and preserves docu ...

(WPRM) *

Western Railway Museum The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway. Their collection focuses on trolleys, as it is ...

* Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSP) * Yreka Western Railroad (YW)

Amusement park

* Disneyland Monorail *

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 ...

* Ghost Town & Calico Railroad

Defunct railroads

Private carriers

* Albion Lumber Company *

American River Land and Lumber Company American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

* Arcata and Mad River Railroad * Bayside Logging Railroad * Bear Harbor and Eel River Railroad * Birch and Smart Railroad * Brookings Lumber and Box Company * Butte and Plumas Railway * C.D. Danaher Pine Company * 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 The Boca and Loyalton Railroad was built to serve sawmills in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of northern California. It became the Loyalton branch of the Western Pacific Railroad. History The Lewis brothers built a standard gauge railway ...

* 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 Duncan may refer to: People * Duncan (given name), various people * Duncan (surname), various people * Clan Duncan * Justice Duncan (disambiguation) Places * Duncan Creek (disambiguation) * Duncan River (disambiguation) * Duncan Lake (dis ...

* Eagle Mountain Railroad *

El Dorado Lumber Company EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...

* Elk Creek Railroad * Feather River Pine Mills, Inc. * Fruit Growers Supply Company * Georgia-Pacific * Glen Blair Redwood Company * Glendale Railroad * Goodyear Redwood Lumber Company * Grande Ronde Pine Company * Gualala River Railroad * Gualala River Railway * Hammond and Little River Redwood Company *

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 ...

* Hammond Redwood Lumber Company * Hardy Creek and Eel River Railroad * Hobart Southern Railroad * Humboldt Bay and Trinidad Logging and Lumbering Company * Humboldt Logging Railway * Humboldt Lumber Mill Company * Humboldt Northern Railway *

Hutchison Lumber Company Hutchison may refer to: Places in the United States * Hutchison, Kentucky * Hutchison, Missouri *Hutchison, Virginia People *Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison, British Royal Marines officer *Ambrose K. Hutchison (1856–1932), Hawaiian resid ...

* Imperial Gypsum Company * L.E. White Lumber Company ( Greenwood Railroad) * Lake Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad * Little River Redwood Company *

Long-Bell Lumber Company In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber ...

Madera Sugar Pine Company The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was known for its use of innovative technologies, such as the first log flume and logg ...

* Mammoth Copper Mining Company * Marsh Lumber Company *

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 ...

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 Navarro may refer to: Places * Navarro (Avilés), a parish in Avilés, Asturias, Spain * Navarro, Buenos Aires, Argentina ** Navarro Partido, the ''partido'' of Navarro, in Argentina * Navarro, California, USA * Navarro, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, USA; ...

* Northern Redwood Lumber Company * Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company *

Pacific Coast Borax Company The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King". History The roots of the Pacific Coast Borax Company lie in Mineral County, Nevada, east of ...

( Borate and Daggett Railroad) *

Pacific Lumber Company The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, and also commonly known as PL, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations, located 28 miles (45 km) south of Eureka and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisc ...

* Pacific Portland Cement Company * Parr-Richmond Industrial Corporation *

PeopleMover The PeopleMover, sometimes referred to as the Goodyear PeopleMover and WEDWay PeopleMover, was a transport attraction that opened on July 2, 1967, in Tomorrowland at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Guests boarded small trains that ran ...

* Pittsburg Railroad * R.E. Danaher Company * Rainbow Mill and Lumber Company * Raymond Granite Company * Read Timber and Lumber Company * Red River Lumber Company * Red Rock Railroad *

Rockport Redwood Company Rockport may refer to: Locations Canada *Rockport, New Brunswick * Rockport, Ontario United States *Rockport, Arkansas * Rockport, California *Rockport, Illinois *Rockport, Indiana **Rockport Generating Station * Rockport, Kentucky *Rockport, Mai ...

* Selby Smelting and Lead Company * Shaver Lake Lumber Company ( Shaver Lake Railroad) *

Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and " saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range ...

* Siskiyou Electric Light and Power Company * Sonoma Magnesite Tramway * South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company * Southwestern Portland Cement Company * Stearns Lumber Company * Stone Canyon and Pacific Railway * Sugar Pine Lumber Company * Tecopa Railroad * Ten Mile Railroad * Terry Lumber Company ( Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad) * Towle Brothers Company *

Tulare Valley Railroad The Tulare Valley Railroad () was operational from December 22, 1992 after acquiring several former Santa Fe Railway branch lines in California's San Joaquin Valley on October 20, 1992. The company was formed by Morris Kulmer & Kern Schumucher ...

Union Lumber Company Fort Bragg, officially the City of Fort Bragg, is a city along the Pacific Coast of California along Shoreline Highway in Mendocino County. The city is west of Willits, at an elevation of . Its population was 6,983 at the 2020 census. Fort ...

( Fort Bragg Railroad) * Union Sugar Company * Usal Redwood Company * Viewliner Train of Tomorrow * Watsonville Traction Company * Weed Lumber Company * West Side Flume and Lumber Company *

West Side Lumber Company railway The West Side Lumber Company railway was the last of the narrow-gauge logging railroads operating in the American west. History West Side Flume & Lumber Company The West Side Flume & Lumber Company was founded in May 1898 to log of land ...

* Western Meat Company * Western Plant Services, Inc. * Western Redwood Lumber Company * Wood Sheldon Lumber Company * Yellow Aster Mining Company * Yosemite Lumber Company *

Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Company Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...

Notes

References

* * *Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in California
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 25, 2005. *Santa Fe Railroad (1945), ''Along Your Way'',

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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

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 ...