The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of California.
Common freight carriers
Freight carrier information is current .
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Class I
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Carrier Code
! scope="col" | Parent company
! scope="col" | Route miles
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|BNSF Railway
|BNSF
|Berkshire Hathaway
|
|-
|Union Pacific Railroad
|UP
|Union Pacific Corporation
|
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Class III
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Carrier Code
! scope="col" | Parent company
! scope="col" | Route miles
|-
|Arizona and California Railroad
|ARZC
|Genesee & Wyoming
| (84 in CA)
|-
|California Northern Railroad
|CFNR
|Genesee & Wyoming
|
|-
|Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad
|CORP
|Genesee & Wyoming
| (56 in CA)
|-
|Central Valley Union Railroad
|CVUR
|
|
|-
|Lake County Railroad
|LCR/LCY
|Frontier Rail
|
|-
|Napa Valley Wine Train
|NVRR
|
|
|-
|Niles Canyon Railway
|NCRY
|Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA)
|10
|-
|Northwestern Pacific Railroad
|NWP
|Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit
|
|-
|Pacific Sun Railroad
|PSRR
|Watco
|
|-
|Sacramento Southern Railroad
|SSR
|State of California
|
|-
|Sacramento Valley Railroad
|SAV
|Patriot Rail Company
|
|-
|San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad
|SDIY
|Genesee & Wyoming
|
|-
|San Joaquin Valley Railroad
|SJVR
|Genesee & Wyoming
|
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|San Francisco Bay Railroad
|SFBR
|
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|-
|Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway
|SCBG
|Roaring Camp, Inc.
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|-
|Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railway
|SCMB
|Progressive Rail, Inc.
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|Santa Maria Valley Railroad
|SMVRR
|
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|-
|Sierra Northern Railway
|SERA
|
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|-
|Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad
|STE
|OmniTrax
|
|-
|Trona Railway
|TRC
|Searles Valley Minerals/Nirma
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|-
|Ventura County Railroad
|VCRR
|Genesee & Wyoming
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|-
|West Isle Line, Inc.
|WFS
|Nutrien
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|Yreka Western Railroad
|YW
|Railmark Holdings
|
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Switching and terminal
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Carrier Code
! scope="col" | Parent company
! scope="col" | Route miles
|-
|Central California Traction Company
|CCT
|BNSF/UPRR
|
|-
|Los Angeles Junction Railway
|LAJ
|BNSF
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|-
|Modesto and Empire Traction Company
|MET
|
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|-
|Oakland Terminal Railway
|OTR
|BNSF/UPRR
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|Pacific Harbor Line, Inc.
|PHL
|Anacostia Rail Holdings Company
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|-
|Quincy Railroad
|QRR
|
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|-
|Richmond Pacific Railroad
|RPRC
|
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|}
Other
- Mare Island Rail Service (MIRS) at Mare Island
- Mojave Northern Railroad, a private carrier industrial railway owned by Cemex
- Oakland Global Rail Enterprise (OGRE) at the Port of Oakland
- West Oakland Pacific Railroad
- Port of Oakland Railway (POAK)
- Southern California Railroad (SCRR) in Plaster City
- USG Corporation (USG) in Plaster City
Passenger carriers
Intercity
- Amtrak (AMTK): California Zephyr, Coast Starlight, Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, Texas Eagle
- Amtrak California (CDTX): Capitol Corridor, Pacific Surfliner and Gold Runner
- California High-Speed Rail (under construction)
- Brightline West (under construction)
Commuter rail
- Altamont Corridor Express (ACE)
- Caltrain (JPBX)
- Coaster (SDNX)
- Metrolink (SCAX)
- Arrow
- Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART)
- North Valley Rail (planned)
Local
- Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
- eBART
- Oakland Airport Connector (people mover)
- Los Angeles Metro Rail (LACZ)
- San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI)
- Muni Metro
- Market Street Railway (E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves lines)
- San Francisco cable car system
- OC Streetcar (under construction)
- SacRT light rail (SCRT)
- San Diego Trolley (SDTI)
- VTA light rail (VTA)
- Sprinter (SDNX)
Excursion
- Angels Flight
- Calico and Odessa Railroad (C&OR)
- California State Railroad Museum (CSRM)
- Sacramento Southern Railroad
- Fillmore and Western Railway (FWRY)
- Justi Creek Railway
- Napa Valley Wine Train (NVRR)
- Niles Canyon Railway (NCRY)
- Pacific Coast Railroad
- Pacific Southwest Railway Museum (PSRM)
- Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad
- Poway-Midland Railroad
- Redwood Valley Railway
- 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 (also known as the Skunk Train) (CWR)
- Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
- Sacramento RiverTrain (SYPD)
- Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources
- Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM)
- Western Railway Museum
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSP)
- Yreka Western Railroad (YW)
Amusement park
- Disneyland Monorail
- Disneyland Railroad
- Ghost Town & Calico Railroad
Defunct railroads
<!--Was the West Side Railroad always electric? Eccles and Eastern Railroad? Stone Canyon Pacific Railway? Were the Shasta Southern Railway and Redding and Red Bluff Railway always electric?-->
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Common carriers
!Name
!Mark
!System
!From
!To
!Successor
!Notes
|-
|Alameda County Railway
|
|
|1888
|1889
|Alameda County Terminal Railway
|
|-
|Alameda County Terminal Railway It is not to be confused with the Coronado Railroad in Arizona.
|
|SP
|1886
|1908
|San Diego Southern Railway
|
|-
|Crescent City Railway
|
|UP
|1906
|1915
|Riverside, Rialto and Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Death Valley Railroad
|
|
|1914
|1931
|N/A
|
|-
|Diamond and Caldor Railway
|
|
|1904
|1952
|N/A
|
|-
|Eel River and Eureka Railroad
|
|NWP (ATSF)
|1882
|1903
|San Francisco and Northwestern Railway
|
|-
|Elsinore, Pomona and Los Angeles Railway
|
|ATSF
|1895
|1899
|Southern California Railway
|
|-
|Eureka and Klamath River Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1896
|1907
|Northwestern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Eureka Southern Railroad
|EUKA
|
|1984
|1992
|North Coast Railroad
|
|-
|Feather River Railway
|
|
|1939
|1966
|N/A
|
|-
|Felton and Pescadero Railroad
|
|SP
|1883
|1887
|South Pacific Coast Railway
|
|-
|Ferries and Cliff House Railway
|
|
|1888
|1893
|Market Street Railway
|Steam dummy railway. Electrified in 1900, becoming part of the 7 Haight streetcar line.
|-
|Parr Terminal Railroad
|PRT
|
|1950
|2002
|Richmond Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Pasadena Railway
|
|UP
|1887
|1892
|Los Angeles Terminal Railway
|
|-
|Patterson and Western Railroad
|
|
|1915
|1921<!--?-->
|N/A
|
|-
|Peninsular Rairoad
|
|SP
|1905
|1909
|Peninsular Railway
|
|-
|Peninsular Railway
|
|SP
|1909
|1934
|Southern Pacific Company
|
|-
|Petaluma and Haystack Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1862
|1875
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad
|
|
|1918
|1985
|
|
|-
|Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway
|
|
|1903
|1918
|
|
|-
|Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railway
|
|
|1904
|1911
|Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad
|
|-
|Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1862
|1869
|Sacramento and Placerville Railroad
|
|-
|Port Railroads, Inc.
|PRI
|
|1973<!--began operating the SF Belt-->
|1996
|San Joaquin Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Porterville Northeastern Railway
|
|SP
|1910
|1934
|Southern Pacific Company
|
|-
|Quincy and Eastern Railroad
|
|
|1908
|1909<!--?-->
|Quincy Western Railway
|
|-
|Quincy Western Railway
|
|
|1909
|1917
|Quincy Railroad
|
|-
|Ramona and San Bernardino Railroad
|
|SP
|1888
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Randsburg Railway
|
|ATSF
|1897
|1911
|California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|Redondo Beach Railway
|
|ATSF
|1888
|1889
|Southern California Railway
|
|-
|Richmond Belt Railway
|
|ATSF / SP
|1902
|1932<!--?-->
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Southern Pacific Company
|
|-
|Riverside, Rialto and Pacific Railroad
|
|UP
|1915
|1917
|Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
|
|-
|Riverside, Santa Ana and Los Angeles Railway
|
|ATSF
|1885
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|Sacramento Northern Railway
|SN
|WP
|1921
|1987
|Western Pacific Railroad
|Electric until 1946<!--?-->
|-
|Sacramento and Oakland Railway
|
|WP
|1903
|1903<!--??-->
|Western Pacific Railway
|
|-
|Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad
|
|
|1861
|1864
|Central Pacific Railway
|
|-
|Sacramento and Placerville Railroad
|
|SP
|1877
|1888
|Northern Railway
|
|-
|Sacramento and San Francisco Railroad
|
|SP
|1864
|1865
|California Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Sacramento Southern Railroad
|
|SP
|1903
|1912
|Central Pacific Railway
|
|-
|Sacramento Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1852
|1877
|Sacramento and Placerville Railroad
|
|-
|Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway
|
|
|1906
|1927<!--??-->
|N/A
|
|-
|San Bernardino, Arrowhead and Waterman Railway
|
|
|1888
|1904
|Pacific Electric Railway
|Became the Arrowhead Line and Highland Line of the Pacific Electric system
|-
|San Bernardino and Eastern Railway
|
|ATSF
|1890
|1892
|Southern California Railway
|
|-
|San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway
|
|ATSF
|1886
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|San Bernardino and Redlands Railroad
|
|SP
|1888
|1916
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Bernardino and San Diego Railway
|
|ATSF
|1886
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|San Bernardino Valley Railway
|
|ATSF
|1887
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|San Diego and Arizona Railway
|
|SP
|1906
|1933
|San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway
|
|-
|San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway
|SDAE
|SP
|1931
|1976
|
|Still exists as a lessor of the Carrizo Gorge Railway and San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad
|-
|San Diego and Arizona Eastern Transportation Company
|SDAE
|
|1979
|1984
|San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad
|
|-
|San Diego Central Railroad
|
|ATSF
|1886
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway
|
|SP
|1909
|1912
|San Diego and South Eastern Railway
|
|-
|San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern Railway
|
|-
|San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern Railway
|
|SP
|1888
|1909
|San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway
|
|-
|San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach Railroad
|
|
|1888
|1894
|Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway
|-
|San Diego and Pacific Beach Railway
|
|
|1887
|1888
|San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach Railroad
|
|-
|San Diego, Pacific Beach and La Jolla Railway
|
|
|1894
|1906
|Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway
|
|-
|San Diego and Old Town Street Railway
|
|
|1886
|1888
|San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach Railroad
|
|-
|San Diego and South Eastern Railway
|
|SP
|1912
|1917
|San Diego and Arizona Railway
|
|-
|San Diego Southern Railway
|
|SP
|1908
|1912
|San Diego and South Eastern Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
|
|SP
|1863
|1870
|San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco, Alameda and Stockton Railroad
|
|SP
|1863
|1864
|San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco Bay Railroad
|
|SP
|1868
|1869
|Western Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco Belt Railroad
|SFB
|
|1969
|1993
|N/A
|
|-
|San Francisco and Colorado River Railroad
|
|SP
|1883
|1887
|South Pacific Coast Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco and Eureka Railway
|
|NWP (SP<!--?-->)
|1903
|1907
|Northwestern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1868
|1869
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco Market Street Railroad
|
|
|1860
|1867
|
|Steam dummy line.
|-
|San Francisco and Marysville Railroad
|
|SP
|1857
|1865
|California Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and Napa Railway
|
|SP
|1903
|1911
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway
|SFN&C
|
|1911
|1935
|San Francisco and Napa Valley Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and Napa Valley Railroad
|
|
|1935
|1956
|
|
|-
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1869
|1889
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railway
|
|NWP (SP)
|1888
|1907
|Northwestern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and Northwestern Railway
|
|NWP (ATSF)
|1903
|1907
|Northwestern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and Oakland Railroad
|
|SP
|1861
|1870
|San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda Railroad
|
|SP
|1870
|1870
|Central Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway
|
|ATSF
|1895
|1901
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco and San Jose Railroad
|
|SP
|1860
|1870
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco and San Rafael Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1882
|1889
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco, Tamalpais and Bolinas Railway
|
|NWP (SP)
|1889
|1892
|North Pacific Coast Railroad
|
|-
|San Francisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Company
|
|WP
|1902
|1903<!--??-->
|Western Pacific Railway
|
|-
|San Francisco, Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad
|SFV&NVRR
|
|1906
|1911
|San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway
|
|-
|San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway
|
|SP
|1887
|1894
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Jacinto Valley Railway
|
|ATSF
|1887
|1887
|California Central Railway
|
|-
|San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad
|SJ&E
|
|1912
|1933
|N/A
|
|-
|San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad
|
|SP
|1882
|1888
|Northern Railway
|
|-
|San Joaquin Valley Railroad (1891–1893)
|
|SP
|1891
|1893
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Joaquin Valley Railroad (1868–1870)
|
|SP
|1868
|1870
|Central Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad
|
|SP
|1886
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Jose and Almaden Railroad
|
|SP
|1886
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Juan Pacific Railway
|
|
|1907
|1912
|California Central Railroad
|
|-
|San Luis Obispo Railroad
|
|
|1873
|1875
|San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria Valley Railroad
|
|-
|San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria Valley Railroad
|
|
|1875
|1882
|Pacific Coast Railway
|
|-
|San Pablo and Tulare Railroad
|
|SP
|1871
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Pablo and Tulare Extension Railroad
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
|SLR
|UP
|1901
|1916
|Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
|
|-
|San Pedro, Los Angeles and Utah Railway
|
|UP
|1887
|1887
|Pasadena Railway
|
|-
|San Rafael and San Quentin Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1869
|<!--no idea - the branch was abandoned in 1946, but the charter expired in 1919!?-->
|
|
|-
|San Ramon Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1888
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Santa Ana Railroad
|
|SP
|1889
|1892
|Newport Wharf and Lumber Company
|
|-
|Santa Ana and Newport Railway
|
|SP
|1892
|1899
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Santa Ana and Westminster Railway
|
|SP
|1890
|1899
|Santa Ana and Newport Railway
|
|-
|Santa Clara and Pajaro Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1868
|1870
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|-
|Santa Cruz Railroad
|
|SP
|1873
|1881
|Pajaro and Santa Cruz Railroad
|
|-
|Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad
|
|SP
|1874
|1887
|South Pacific Coast Railway
|
|-
|Santa Fe and Los Angeles Harbor Railway
|
|ATSF
|1922<!--?-->
|1942
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|Santa Fe Pacific Railroad
|
|ATSF
|1897
|1902
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|Santa Fe and Santa Monica Railway
|
|ATSF
|1892
|1892
|Southern California Railway
|
|-
|Santa Fe Terminal Company of California
|
|ATSF
|1899
|1912
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|
|-
|Santa Rosa and Carquinez Railroad
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|
|-
|Saratoga and Almaden Railroad
|
|
|1884
|1905
|N/A
|
|-
|Shingle Springs and Placerville Railroad
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|Northern Railway
|
|-
|Sierra Railroad
|SERA
|
|1935
|2003
|Sierra Northern Railway
|
|-
|Sierra Railway of California
|SRYC
|
|1897
|1937
|Sierra Railroad
|
|-
|Sierra and Mohawk Railway
|
|SP
|1911
|1915
|Nevada–California–Oregon Railway
|-
|Sierra Valley & Mohawk Railway
|
|SP
|1885
|1895
|Sierra Valley Railroad
|-
|Sierra Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1895
|1909
|Sierra and Mohawk Railway
|-
|Sonoma County Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1868
|1868
|San Francisco and Humboldt Bay Railroad
|-
|Sonoma and Marin Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1875
|1877
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
|-
|Sonoma and Santa Rosa Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1881
|1885
|Sonoma Valley Railroad
|-
|Sonoma Valley Railroad
|
|NWP (SP)
|1878
|1889
|San Francisco and North Pacific Railway
|-
|Sonoma Valley Prismoidal Railway
|
|NWP (SP)
|1875
|1878
|Sonoma Valley Railroad
|-
|South Pacific Coast Railroad
|
|SP
|1876
|1887
|South Pacific Coast Railway
|-
|South Pacific Coast Railway
|
|SP
|1887
|1937
|Southern Pacific Company
|-
|South San Francisco Belt Railway
|
|SP
|1907
|1945
|Southern Pacific Company
|-
|Southern California Railway
|
|ATSF
|1889
|1906
|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|-
|Southern California Motor Road
|
|SP
|1887
|1895
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Southern Pacific Company
|SP
|SP
|1885
|1969
|Southern Pacific Transportation Company
|-
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|SP
|1865
|1955
|Southern Pacific Company
|-
|Southern Pacific Railroad Extension Company
|
|SP
|1888
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Southern Pacific Branch Railroad
|
|SP
|1872
|1873
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|Part of the Coast Line
|-
|Southern Pacific Branch Railway
|
|SP
|1886
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|Part of the Coast Line
|-
|Southern Pacific Transportation Company
|SP
|SP
|1969
|1998
|Union Pacific Railroad
|-
|State Belt Railroad
|
|
|1873<!--first planned by Harbor Commission; when was it authorized?-->
|1969
|San Francisco Belt Railroad
|-
|Stockton and Beckwith Pass Railway
|
|WP
|1902
|1903<!--??-->
|Western Pacific Railway
|-
|Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad
|
|SP
|1865
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Stockton and Ione Railroad
|
|
|1873
|1875<!--?-->
|N/A
|-
|Stockton and Tulare Railroad
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Stockton and Visalia Railroad
|
|SP
|1869
|1877
|Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad
|-
|Sugar Pine Lumber Company
|
|
|1923
|1933<!--?-->
|N/A
|-
|Sugar Pine Railway
|
|
|1903
|1922<!--?-->
|N/A
|-
|Sunset Railroad
|
|ATSF/ SP
|1900
|1912
|Sunset Railway
|-
|Sunset Railway
|SUN
|ATSF/ SP
|1912
|
|
|Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, leased to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad
|-
|Sunset Western Railway
|
|ATSF/ SP
|1909
|1912
|Sunset Railway
|-
|Tidewater and Southern Railroad
|
|WP
|1910
|1912
|Tidewater Southern Railway
|-
|Tidewater Southern Railway
|TSO, TS
|WP
|1912
|1987
|Western Pacific Railroad
|-
|Tidewater and Southern Transit Company
|
|WP
|1912
|1912
|Tidewater Southern Railway
|-
|Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
|
|
|1904
|1940
|N/A
|-
|Vaca Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1869
|1870
|Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad
|-
|Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad
|
|SP
|1877
|1888
|Northern Railway
|-
|Vallejo, Benicia and Napa Valley Railroad
|VB&NVRR
|
|1902
|1910
|San Francisco, Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad
|
|-
|Ventura County Railway
|VCY
|
|1911
|
|
|Still exists as a lessor of the Ventura County Railroad
|-
|Ventura and Ojai Valley Railroad
|
|SP
|1896
|1899
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Visalia Railroad
|
|SP
|1874
|1899
|Southern Pacific Railroad
|-
|Visalia Electric Railroad
|VE
|SP
|1904
|1992
|Southern Pacific Transportation Company
|Electric until 1944
|-
|Visalia and Tulare Railroad
|
|
|1887
|1900<!--??-->
|N/A
|-
|West Side and Mendocino Railroad
|
|SP
|1886
|1888
|Northern Railway
|-
|Western Nevada Railroad
|
|SP
|1879
|1880
|Nevada and Oregon Railroad
|-
|Western Pacific Railroad
|WP
|WP
|1916
|1987
|Union Pacific Railroad
|-
|Western Pacific Railroad
|
|SP
|1862
|1870
|Central Pacific Railroad
|-
|Western Pacific Railway
|
|WP
|1903
|1916
|Western Pacific Railroad
|-
|Wilmington and Long Beach Rapid Transit Railroad
|
|SP
|1882
|1887
|
|-
|Winters and Ukiah Railway
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|Northern Railway
|-
|Woodland, Capay and Clear Lake Railroad
|
|SP
|1887
|1888
|Northern Railway
|-
|Yolo Shortline Railroad
|YSLR
|
|1991
|2003
|Sierra Northern Railway
|-
|Yosemite Short Line Railway
|
|
|1905
|1917<!--?-->
|N/A
|-
|Yosemite Valley Railroad
|
|
|1902
|1935
|Yosemite Valley Railway
|-
|Yosemite Valley Railway
|
|
|1934
|1945
|N/A
|-
|Yreka Railroad
|
|
|1888
|1935
|Yreka Western Railroad
|-
|Yuba Railroad
|
|SP
|1862
|1869
|California and Oregon Railroad
|}
Private carriers
- Albion Lumber Company
- Almanor Railroad Company
- American River Land and Lumber Company
- 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
- Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad
- Charles W. Kitts
- Clover Valley Lumber Company
- Crane Creek Lumber Company
- Crescent City and Smith River Railroad
- C.D. Dansher Pine Company
- R.E. Dansher Company
- Del Norte Southern Railroad
- Descanso, Alpine and Pacific Railway
- Diamond Match Company
- Duncan Mill Land and Lumber Company
- El Dorado Lumber Company
- Elk Creek Railroad
- Epsom Salts 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 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 and Mad River Railroad
- Humboldt Northern Railway
- Hutchison Lumber Company
- United States Gypsum Company
- Kaiser Steel (Eagle Mountain Railroad)
- L.E. White Lumber Company (Greenwood Railroad)
- Lake Valley Railroad
- Little River Redwood Company
- Long-Bell Lumber Company
- Madera Flume and Trading Company
- Madera Sugar Pine Company
- Mammoth Copper Mining Company
- Marsh Lumber Company
- McCloud Railway
- Mendocino Railroad Company
- Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company
- Michigan–California Lumber Company
- Minors Railroad
- Mono Lake Lumber Company
- Mono Lake Railway and Lumber Company
- Navarro Railroad
- Navarro Mill Company
- Navarro River Railroad
- Northern Redwood Lumber Company
- Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company
- Pacific Coast Borax Company (Borate and Daggett Railroad)
- Pacific Lumber Company
- Pacific Lumber and Wood Company
- Pacific Portland Cement Company
- Parr-Richmond Industrial Corporation
- PeopleMover
- Pittsburg Railroad
- Pudding Creek Lumber COmpany
- R.E. Danaher Company
- Rainbow Mill and Lumber Company
- Raymond Granite Company
- Read Timber and Lumber Company
- Red River Lumber Company
- Red Rock Railroad
- Richardson Brothers Railroad
- Rockport Redwood Company
- Salmon Creek Railroad
- Schaffer Mill Railroad
- Selby Smelting and Lead Company
- Shaver Lake Lumber Company (Shaver Lake Railroad)
- Sierra Lumber Company
- Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company
- 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 Pacific Railway
- Tecopa Railroad
- Ten Mile Railroad
- Terry Lumber Company (Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad)
- Towle Brothers Company
- Trinidad Milling Company
- Truckee Lumber COmpany
- Tulare Valley Railroad
- Union Lumber Company (Fort Bragg Railroad)
- Union Sugar Company
- Usal Redwood Company
- Verdi Lumber Company
- Viewliner Train of Tomorrow
- Waterloo Mining Railroad
- Watsonville Traction Company
- Weed Lumber Company
- West Side Flume and Lumber Company
- West Side Lumber Company railway
- 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
Excursion
- Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line
See also
- History of rail transportation in California
- List of San Francisco Bay Area trains
Notes
References
Bibliography
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
External links
Archival collections
- Guide to Railroads in California by L. M. Clement. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.