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Caltrain (Reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). [1]

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AC Transit

AC Transit (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is an Oakland-based public transit agency serving the western portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county in the state of California in the United States.

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Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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Altamont Corridor Express

The Altamont Corridor Express (also known as ACE, formerly Altamont Commuter Express) is a commuter rail service in California, connecting Stockton and San Jose.

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Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Public Transportation Association

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), formerly known as the American Public Transit Association, is a nonprofit organization which serves as an advocate for the advancement of public transportation programs and initiatives in the United States.

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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Amtrak California

Amtrak California is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail on three state-supported Amtrak rail routes within the US State of California, the Capitol Corridor, the Pacific Surfliner, and the San Joaquin.

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AT&T Park

AT&T Park is a baseball park located in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Atherton station

Atherton is a weekend-only Caltrain station located in Atherton, California.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is an English multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Bellarmine College Preparatory

Bellarmine College Preparatory is a private, Jesuit, all-male preparatory school in the College Park neighborhood of San Jose, California.

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Blossom Hill station (Caltrain)

Blossom Hill is a Caltrain station located in San Jose, California.

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Bombardier BiLevel Coach

The Bombardier BiLevel Coach is a bilevel passenger railcar designed to carry up to 360 passengers for commuter railways.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

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Broadway station (Caltrain)

Broadway is a Caltrain station in Burlingame, California.

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Budd Company

The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.

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Budd Rail Diesel Car

The Budd Rail Diesel Car, RDC or Buddliner is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit (DMU) railcar.

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Budd SPV-2000

The Budd SPV-2000 is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar built by the Budd Company between 1978 and 1981 for use on North American commuter railroads.

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Bungee cord

A bungee cord (sometimes spelled bungie), also known as a shock cord (occy strap or octopus strap in Australian common usage) is an elastic cord composed of one or more elastic strands forming a core, usually covered in a woven cotton or polypropylene sheath.

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Burlingame station

Burlingame is a Caltrain station in Burlingame, California.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Caboose

A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train.

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California Department of Transportation

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the US state of California.

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California High-Speed Rail

California High-Speed Rail (abbreviated CAHSR or CHSR) is a high-speed rail system under construction in California in the United States.

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Caltrain Express

The Caltrain Express (CTX) (also known as the Baby Bullet) project was implemented from 2002 to 2004 and led to the establishment of commuter railroad Caltrain's "Baby Bullet" express service, which shortened the transit time between San Francisco and San Jose, and certain stations in between.

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Capitol Corridor

The Capitol Corridor is a 168-mile (275 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in California.

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Capitol station (Caltrain)

Capitol is a Caltrain station located in San Jose, California.

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Castroville, California

Castroville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Centralized traffic control

Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America.

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Clipper card

The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for electronic transit fare payment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Coast Starlight

The Coast Starlight is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States.

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College Park station (Caltrain)

College Park is a lightly used Caltrain station in San Jose, California.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Control car

A control car, control trailer or driving trailer is a generic term for a non-powered railroad (US) or railway (UIC) vehicle that can control operation of a train from the end opposite to the position of the locomotive.

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Cottle station

Cottle is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).

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Crashworthiness

Crashworthiness is the ability of a structure to protect its occupants during an impact.

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Del Monte (train)

The Del Monte was a passenger train run by the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Francisco and Monterey, California.

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born Dianne Emiel Goldman, June 22, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Downtown Mountain View Station

Downtown Mountain View Station is an intermodal passenger transportation station that serves the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system, Caltrain commuter rail line, and numerous bus and shuttle routes.

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Dumbarton Express

Dumbarton Express is a regional public transit service in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties via the Dumbarton Bridge.

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Dumbarton Rail Bridge

The Dumbarton Rail Bridge lies just to the south of the Dumbarton road bridge.

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Dumbarton Rail Corridor

The Dumbarton Rail Corridor is a proposed transbay passenger rail line which would reuse the right-of-way that was initially constructed from 1907–1910 as the Dumbarton Cut-off.

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East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

The eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, commonly referred to as the East Bay, includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay.

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East Palo Alto, California

East Palo Alto (abbreviated E.P.A.) is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Ed Lee (politician)

Edwin Mah Lee (May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco, and was the first Asian American to hold the office.

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Elaine Chao

Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) is the 18th and current United States Secretary of Transportation.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.

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Electrification of Caltrain

The Caltrain Modernization Program (CalMod) is a $1.9 billion project that will add a positive train control (PTC) system and electrify the main line of the U.S. commuter railroad Caltrain, which serves cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley, as well as transition from its current diesel-electric locomotive powered trains to electric multiple units (EMU).

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Electro-Motive Diesel

Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.

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EMD AEM-7

The AEM-7 is a twin-cab four-axle B-B electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Division (EMD) and ASEA between 1978 and 1988.

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EMD F40PH

The EMD F40PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in several variants from 1975 to 1992.

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EMD GP9

An EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the United States, and General Motors Diesel in Canada between January, 1954, and August, 1963.

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EMD MP15DC

The EMD MP15DC was a switcher-type diesel locomotive model produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between March 1974 and January 1983.

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Environmental impact assessment

Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.

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Environmental impact statement

An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".

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Farebox recovery ratio

The farebox recovery ratio (also called fare recovery ratio, fare recovery rate or other terms) of a passenger transportation system is the fraction of operating expenses which are met by the fares paid by passengers.

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Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Financial District, San Francisco

The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, that serves as its main central business district.

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Flatcar

A flatcar (US) (also flat car (US) or flat wagon (UIC)) is a piece of railroad (US) or railway (non-US) rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on a pair of trucks (US) or bogies (UK), one at each end containing four or six wheels.

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Folding bicycle

A folding bicycle is a bicycle designed to fold into a compact form, facilitating transport and storage.

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Fremont, California

Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

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Gilroy station

Gilroy is a Caltrain station located in Gilroy, California.

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Gilroy, California

Gilroy is a city located in Northern California's Santa Clara County, south of Morgan Hill and north of San Benito County.

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Golden Gate Transit

Golden Gate Transit (GGT) is a public transportation system serving the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Grand Canyon Railway

The Grand Canyon Railway, is a passenger railroad which operates between Williams, Arizona, and Grand Canyon National Park South Rim.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Highway 17 Express

The Highway 17 Express is an Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach route provided by a consortium of entities that provides regional service between San Jose and Santa Cruz County in the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Hollister, California

Hollister is the county seat and largest city of San Benito County, California, United States.

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International Union of Railways

The UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) or International Union of Railways is an international rail transport industry body.

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Interstate 280 (California)

Interstate 280 (I-280) is a 57-mile (92-km) long north–south Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Jackie Speier

Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier (born May 14, 1950) is the U.S. Representative for, serving in Congress since 2008.

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Kamala Harris

Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017.

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Levi's Stadium

Levi's Stadium is a football stadium located in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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List of Peninsula Commute locomotives

Many locomotives from numerous rail companies have served along the Peninsula Commute rail line between San Francisco and San Jose since 1863.

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List of San Francisco Bay Area trains

This is a list of trains and train museums in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California in the United States.

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Locker

A locker is a small, usually narrow storage compartment.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Menlo Park station

Menlo Park is a Caltrain station located in Menlo Park, California.

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Menlo Park, California

Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States.

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Metrolink (California)

Metrolink is a commuter or regional rail system in Southern California; it consists of seven lines and 62 stations operating on of rail network.

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Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area)

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the government agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Millbrae station

Millbrae station is an intermodal transit station serving Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain, located in suburban Millbrae, California.

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Mission Bay, San Francisco

Mission Bay is a neighborhood on the east side of San Francisco, California.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Monterey County, California

Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Monterey, California

Monterey is a city located in Monterey County in the U.S. state of California, on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast.

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Monterey–Salinas Transit

Monterey-Salinas Transit, (MST), provides bus service within Monterey County in California.

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Morgan Hill station

Morgan Hill is a Caltrain station located in Morgan Hill, California.

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MPI MPXpress

MPXpress is a series of diesel-electric passenger train locomotives designed for commuter rail service.

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Muni Metro

The Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

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N Judah

The N Judah is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California, so named as it runs along Judah Street for much of its length, named after railroad engineer Theodore Judah.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Newark, California

Newark is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

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Nippon Sharyo

,, formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan.

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Oakland Tribune

The Oakland Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.

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Operation Lifesaver

Operation Lifesaver is the largest rail safety organization in the United States.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Pajaro, California

Pajaro is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Palo Alto station

Palo Alto is the main train station in Palo Alto, California and the second busiest in the Caltrain system after the 4th and King Street Station in downtown San Francisco.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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Peninsula Commute

The Peninsula Commute, also known as the Southern Pacific Peninsula or just Peninsula, was the common name for commuter rail service between San Jose, California and San Francisco, California on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Positive train control

Positive train control (PTC) is a system of functional requirements for monitoring and controlling train movements and is a type of train protection system.

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Presidency of Donald Trump

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States at noon EST on January 20, 2017, succeeding Barack Obama.

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Proof-of-payment

Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard or railroad yard is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading, railroad cars and locomotives.

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Railroad electrification in the United States

Railroad electrification in the United States began at the turn of the 20th century and comprised many different systems in many different geographical areas, few of which were connected.

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Railway Age

Railway Age is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Redwood City Daily News

The Redwood City Daily News was a free daily newspaper in Redwood City, California published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000.

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Regional rail

Regional rail, also known as local trains and stopping trains, are passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities.

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Road Repair and Accountability Act

The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, also known as the "gas tax", and Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) is a California legislative bill that was passed on April 6, 2017 with the aim of repairing roads, improving traffic safety, and expanding public transit systems across the state.

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Salinas station

Salinas is a passenger rail station in Salinas, California, United States.

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Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California.

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SamTrans

SamTrans (stylized as samTrans; officially the San Mateo County Transit District) is a public transport agency in and around San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Benito County Transit

The San Benito County Local Transportation Authority (LTA) is the public transportation agency of San Benito County, California, immediately south of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County).

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San Carlos station

San Carlos is a Caltrain station in San Carlos, California, about midway between San Francisco and San Jose.

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San Carlos, California

San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California on the San Francisco Peninsula, about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco 4th and King Street Station

San Francisco 4th and King Street, 4th and King (previously 4th & Townsend), or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line to the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub.

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San Francisco and San Jose Railroad

The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ) was the first railroad to link the communities of San Francisco and San Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco International Airport

San Francisco International Airport is an international airport south of downtown San Francisco, California, United States, near Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.

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San Francisco International Airport station

San Francisco International Airport station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) reversal station on the Antioch–SFO/Millbrae line located inside the San Francisco International Airport, also known as SFO or SFIA.

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San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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San Jose Diridon station

San Jose Diridon is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose, California.

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San Jose International Airport

Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California, United States.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (commonly referred to as San Jose State or SJSU) is a public comprehensive university located in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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San Martin station

San Martin is a Caltrain station located in San Martin, California.

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San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County (Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.

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Santa Clara station (California)

The Santa Clara Depot is one of two heavy railway stations in Santa Clara, California (the other being Great America Station further to the north).

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Santa Clara Valley

The Santa Clara Valley runs south-southeast from the southern end of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States.

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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is a special district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California.

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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail

VTA Light Rail is a light rail system serving San Jose, California and its suburbs in Silicon Valley. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of of network comprising two main lines and a spur line on standard gauge tracks. Originally opened in 1987, the light rail system has gradually expanded since then, and currently has 62 light rail stations in operation on the three lines. VTA operates a fleet of 99 Kinki Sharyo Low Floor Light Rail Vehicles (LFLRV) to service its passengers. The system's average weekday daily ridership as of Q4 2015 is 33,400 passengers; the greatest daily average recorded over a month was 37,536 in June 2008.

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Santa Cruz County, California

Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California.

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SAP Center

The SAP Center (originally known as the San Jose Arena) is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.

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Silicon Valley BART extension

The Silicon Valley BART Extension will expand service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County, from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County.

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Silicon Valley Leadership Group

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) is a non-profit advocacy group in Silicon Valley, California, in the United States.

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Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Sounder commuter rail

Sounder commuter rail is a regional rail service operated by BNSF on behalf of Sound Transit.

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South Bay Historical Railroad Society

The South Bay Historical Railroad Society is located in Santa Clara, California and operates the Edward Peterman Museum of Railroad History in the Santa Clara Depot, as well as the Santa Clara Tower and two other buildings.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Spare ratio

A spare ratio or spares ratio is the percentage of unused vehicles operated by a public transport operator during peak service periods.

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Stadler KISS

The Stadler KISS is a family of bilevel electric multiple unit commuter train developed and manufactured by Stadler Rail.

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Stadler Rail

Stadler Rail AG, also known as Stadler Rail Group, is a Swiss manufacturer of railway rolling stock, with an emphasis on regional train multiple units and trams.

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Stanford Marguerite Shuttle

Marguerite is the free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public to get around campus or from campus to some off-campus locations such as the San Antonio Shopping Center, VA Palo Alto Hospital, Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Stanford Shopping Center, or the Palo Alto Transit Center.

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Stanford Stadium

Stanford Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Stanford, California, on the campus of Stanford University.

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Stanford station

Stanford is a Caltrain station in Palo Alto, California, near to the stadium on the Stanford University campus.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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T Third Street

The T Third Street is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California.

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Tamien station

Tamien is an intermodal passenger transportation station served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail system, two bus routes, and the Caltrain commuter rail line.

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The Daily News (Palo Alto)

The Daily News, originally the Palo Alto Daily News, is a free newspaper owned by MediaNews Group and located in Menlo Park.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States.

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The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a longtime daily newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California.

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Third Street (San Francisco)

Third Street, formerly Kentucky Street in the Dogpatch and Railroad Avenue in the Bayview, is a north-south street running through the Downtown, Mission Bay, Potrero Point, Dogpatch, and the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Track geometry car

A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport system used to test several geometric parameters of the track without obstructing normal railroad operations.

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Tractive force

As used in mechanical engineering, the term tractive force can either refer to the total traction a vehicle exerts on a surface, or the amount of the total traction that is parallel to the direction of motion.

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Transbay Transit Center

The Transbay Transit Center (officially Salesforce Transit Center) is an intermodal transit station under construction in downtown San Francisco.

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TransitAmerica Services

TransitAmerica Services, Inc. is a United States commuter rail corporation headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Union City, California

Union City is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in Alameda County, California, United States located approximately 20 miles south of Oakland, 30 miles southeast of San Francisco, and 20 miles north of San Jose.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States Secretary of Transportation

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential Line of Succession.

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Virginia Railway Express

The Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects the Northern Virginia suburbs to Union Station in Washington, D.C., via two lines: the Fredericksburg Line from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the Manassas Line from Broad Run/Airport station in Bristow, Virginia.

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Visitacion Valley, San Francisco

Visitacion Valley (homophone of visitation), is a neighborhood located in the southeastern quadrant of San Francisco, California.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

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Wabtec Corporation

Wabtec Corporation (derived from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.

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Watsonville, California

Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.

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WiMAX

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a family of wireless communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards, which provide multiple physical layer (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) options.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain

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