List of California railroads

The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of California.

Common freight carriers

Freight carrier information is current .

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

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.