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8 unusual facts about Southern Pacific Transportation Company


CalTrain

Service ended in the face of high costs, lower-than-expected ridership, a changing political climate and staunch opposition from the Southern Pacific Railroad.

El Modena, California

The Southern Pacific formerly had an El Modena Station, located off La Veta Avenue, just south of the present-day La Veta Park.

Fort Hancock, Texas

Texas State Highway 20, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, both run through the town.

MAPPER

After about four years, the Santa Fe actually bought its competitor, the Southern PacificTOPS|)

Russ Westover

After a job as a clerk with the Southern Pacific Railroad, Westover headed for San Francisco, where he studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.

San Jose Steam Railroad Museum

The roundhouse was donated to the CRTC by Southern Pacific Railroad.

Shasta Lake

Also beneath the lake is the submerged town of Kennett, defunct tunnels and right of way of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, parts of which can be seen when the water level is low.

Steel Electric-class ferry

The Steel Electric class ferries were built in 1927 for Southern Pacific Transportation Company service on San Francisco Bay.


Alder, Oregon

Alder railroad station on Southern Pacific's Toledo Line (now owned by the Portland and Western Railroad) was established in 1911, but in 1922 the Post Office Department would not name the community's new post office "Alder" because of potential confusion with many other offices with the same name.

Crowley, Polk County, Oregon

Crowley was a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Derry and McCoy, established in 1892 as "Crowleys" and named for Solomon Kimsey Crowley.

EMD E7

A Southern Pacific E7A, #6001, is on the point of a train that figures prominently in The Hitch-Hiker, a popular 1960 episode of the anthology television series, The Twilight Zone, starring Inger Stevens.

Fernley and Lassen Railway

The railroad was constructed to connect the Red River Lumber Company's facilities in Westwood with the Southern Pacific's main line running through Fernley.

Goshen, Oregon

In 1884, Goshen was a station on the Oregon and California Railroad (Later the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific, and today the Central Oregon and Pacific), and the town had a store, blacksmith shop, and a school.

Midland, Louisiana

It is also located at the intersection of the former Louisiana Western Railroad (later a Southern Pacific Transportation Company subsidiary and now a joint BNSF Railway/Union Pacific Railroad line) and its branches to Eunice and Gueydan.

Ordbend, California

The Southern Pacific Railroad named a station along its now-abandoned Colusa branch, along the west bank of the Sacramento River, Ord Bend as recognition of the nearby Ord Ranch, owned in the 1850s by U.S. Army MG Edward O.C. Ord and two of his brothers.

Shady, Oregon

Like nearby Green, Shady was a station on the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Shaw, Oregon

Shaw was a station in the Waldo Hills between Macleay and Aumsville on the Oregonian Railway (later the Southern Pacific Railroad and today the Willamette Valley Railway).

Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. ICC

A division of the Southern Pacific Railroad was aiding a cottonseed exporter in the Port of Galveston by negotiating discount wharf fees on his behalf in exchange for requiring farmers to haul the crop exclusively in Southern Pacific railcars.


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