Abandoned Sacramento Northern Railway
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railway, railroad yard
Abandoned Sacramento Northern Railway (SN). The SN line crossed from south to north underneath the Union Pacific (former SP) and BNSF (former AT&SF) lines. Trains going from San Francisco/Oakland to Sacramento took the east leg of the wye to the former location of the ferry landing 'Mallard'. Development has obliterated the site of the abandoned landing. The ferry 'Ramon' transported trains across the Sacramento River to the ferry landing 'Chipps' on Chipps Island. Trains going to Pittsburg would continue east at the location of the wye. The Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction (east of Fairfield, CA) has preserved a portion of this line to Sacramento and operates restored electric streetcars and interurbans. See the following websites for more information and photos: people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/home.html ; www.wrm.org/about/sacramento_northern.htm ; www.bayarearailfan.org/gallery/v/sn/?g2_page=4 ;
www.bayarearailfan.org/photogal/main.php?category=snmap...
www.bayarearailfan.org/photogal/main.php?category=snmap...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Northern
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Coordinates: 38°2'3"N 121°55'46"W
- Sacramento Northern Railway (abandoned) 10 km
- Southern Pacific Suisun Railroad Bridge 17 km
- Desert Yard 41 km
- Oakland Terminals 43 km
- Abandoned Sacramento Northern Railway 49 km
- Bayshore Yard (site) 56 km
- The Sacramento Railyard 72 km
- Newhall Yard (site) 76 km
- Union Pacific Railroad - J. R. Davis Yard 94 km
- Watsonville Junction Yard 127 km
- PG&E Pittsburg Power Plant 1.7 km
- Honker Bay 3.9 km
- Bay Point, California 4.3 km
- Van Sickle Island 5.6 km
- Concord Naval Weapons Station 6.6 km
- Military Ocean Terminal Concord 7.6 km
- Los Medanos Hills/Pittsburg Hills 10 km
- Suisun Bay 10 km
- Ygnacio Valley 11 km
- Suisun Marsh 13 km