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Folsom approves 7 years of recreational train rides. Here’s what it means in practice
Folsom City Council approved Tuesday a seven-year license agreement so the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad (PSVRR) can resume some excursion train rides. Sacramento and El Dorado ...
Sierra Railroad wants to use RailPower acquisition to build zero-emission locomotives
With a new acquisition, a West Sacramento-based company can build hydrogen fuel-cell trains that could get fuel from local ...
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Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada
the locomotive that had taken the first pioneering ride on Theodore Judah's Sacramento Valley Railroad. Stripped of all non-essential parts, it was driven to Gold Run, at that point the end of ...
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.; From the Pacific Coast. THE SALE OP THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIPS-- RAILROAD ENTERPRISE--WARES FROM JAPAN --GENERAL NEWS.
A number of cars and a considerable quantity of railroad iron were being discharged from the ship Morning Light, for the Sacramento Valley Railroad. A great quantity of the pieces of a ready-made ...
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Railfan Road: California's Central Valley
Railfanning California’s Central Valley offers diverse operations, wide-open vistas, and plenty of action. Even so, the Central Valley gets no respect. Fresno, Bakersfield and even Sacramento ...
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Theodore Judah
His enthusiasm earned him the nickname "Crazy Judah," but by 1856 Theodore Judah and his men had built the Sacramento Valley Line, the first railroad west of the Missouri River. His wife would ...