However, in December 1871 there was severe flooding in the Yolo Bypass causing damage to the line between Knightâs Landing and Yuba City.
Throughout the late 1860s and into the 1870s, Latham helped finance the California Pacific and the North Pacific Coast Railroad, earning recognition as one of California's rail barons.
A shorter rail line between Oakland and Sacramento was established via the California Pacific Railroad and Benicia by 1879.
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The Vaca Valley Railroad was incorporated on April 12, 1869 to run a branch from the mainline of the California Pacific Railroad (later Southern Pacific Railroad's mainline between Sacramento and Oakland, CA) at Elmira to Rumsey.