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73 relations: Alazon, Nevada, Altamont Corridor Express, Altamont Pass, Battle Mountain, Nevada, Beckwourth Pass, Bieber, California, Bingham Canyon Mine, Black Rock Desert, Blue Line (Sacramento RT), Bonneville Salt Flats, California State Route 70, California Zephyr, Carlin Tunnel, Central Corridor (Union Pacific Railroad), Central Pacific Railroad, Central Valley (California), Centralized traffic control, Chicago, Clio trestle, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Donner Pass, Double-track railway, E. H. Harriman, Feather River, First Transcontinental Railroad, George Jay Gould I, Humboldt River, Jay Gould, Keddie Wye, Keddie, California, Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack, Lake Oroville, Left- and right-hand traffic, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, Lynndyl Subdivision, Nevada, Nevada State Route 49, Niles Canyon, North Fork Bridge (California), Northern California, Oakland, California, Ogden, Utah, Oroville Dam, Oroville, California, Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), Pacific coast, Palisade, Nevada, Pequop Mountains, Portola, California, Pulga Bridges, ..., Rail transport, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, Saltair (Utah), San Francisco, Shafter Subdivision, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Spring Garden Tunnel, Stockton, California, Toano Range, Tobin Bridges, Union Pacific Railroad, Utah, Wells, Nevada, Western Pacific Railroad, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Williams Loop, Winnemucca, Nevada, World War I, World War II. Expand index (23 more) »
Alazon, Nevada
Alazon is an extinct town in Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
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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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Altamont Pass
Altamont Pass, formerly Livermore Pass, is a low mountain pass in the Diablo Range of Northern California between Livermore in the Livermore Valley and Tracy in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Battle Mountain, Nevada
Battle Mountain is an unincorporated town in and the county seat of Lander County, Nevada, United States.
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Beckwourth Pass
Beckwourth Pass is the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range at an elevation of.
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Bieber, California
Bieber (formerly, Chalk Ford) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lassen County, California.
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Bingham Canyon Mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.
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Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than of land and contains more than of historic trails.
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Blue Line (Sacramento RT)
The Blue Line is a light rail line in the Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT) system.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
The Bonneville Salt Flats is a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah.
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California State Route 70
State Route 70 (SR 70) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.
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California Zephyr
The California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno.
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Carlin Tunnel
The Carlin Tunnel is a collective name for a set of four tunnel bores in the Humboldt River's Carlin Canyon, east of Carlin in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
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Central Corridor (Union Pacific Railroad)
The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States.
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Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
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Central Valley (California)
The Central Valley is a flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California.
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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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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Clio trestle
The Clio Trestle is a railroad trestle on the historic Feather River Route of the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.
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Donner Pass
Donner Pass (el.) is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake about west of Truckee, California.
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Double-track railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
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E. H. Harriman
Edward Henry "Ned" Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American railroad executive.
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Feather River
The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California.
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First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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George Jay Gould I
George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould.
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Humboldt River
The Humboldt River runs through northern Nevada in the western United States.
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Jay Gould
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was a leading American railroad developer and speculator.
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Keddie Wye
The Keddie Wye is a railroad junction in the form of a wye on the Union Pacific Railroad in Plumas County, California, United States.
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Keddie, California
Keddie is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
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Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack
Kennecott Utah Copper LLC’s Garfield Smelter Stack is a high smokestack west of Magna, Utah, alongside Interstate 80 near the Great Salt Lake.
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Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California.
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Left- and right-hand traffic
The terms right-hand traffic (RHT) and left-hand traffic (LHT) refer to the practice, in bidirectional traffic situations, to keep to the right side or to the left side of the road, respectively.
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Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was a rail company that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Lynndyl Subdivision
The Lynndyl Subdivision is a rail line owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in the U.S. state of Utah, running from Salt Lake City southwest to Milford, where the Caliente Subdivision continues towards Los Angeles.
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Nevada
Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
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Nevada State Route 49
Former State Route 49, also known as Jungo Road, is an unimproved road from State Route 447 (former State Route 34) near Gerlach east to Winnemucca via the ghost towns of Sulphur and Jungo.
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Niles Canyon
Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek, known for its railroad and movie history.
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North Fork Bridge (California)
The North Fork Bridge is a railroad bridge over the North Fork Feather River in the Feather River Canyon, located in Plumas County, California at the approximate coordinates of 39°42'60" N, 121°28'14" W. It is the longest reinforced concrete bridge in the United States.
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Northern California
Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.
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Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.
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Oroville Dam
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.
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Oroville, California
Oroville is the county seat of Butte County, California, United States.
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Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)
The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad / Southern Pacific Railroad, between Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco, California over the grade of the First Transcontinental Railroad (aka the "Pacific Railroad") which had been opened on May 10, 1869.
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Pacific coast
A country's Pacific coast is the part of its coast bordering the Pacific Ocean.
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Palisade, Nevada
Palisade (originally called Palisades) is located in Eureka County in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada, in the western United States.
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Pequop Mountains
The Pequop Mountains are a mountain range located in eastern Elko County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States.
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Portola, California
Portola is the only incorporated city in Plumas County, California, United States.
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Pulga Bridges
The Pulga Bridges are two nearby bridges for highway and railroad crossings of the North Fork Feather River.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was a government corporation in the United States between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.
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Sacramento Regional Transit District
The Sacramento Regional Transit District, commonly referred to as RT, is the agency responsible for public transportation in the Sacramento, California area.
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Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Saltair (Utah)
Saltair, also The SaltAir, Saltair Resort, or Saltair Pavilion, is the name that has been given to several resorts located on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States, about fifteen miles (25 km) from Salt Lake City.
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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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Shafter Subdivision
The Shafter Subdivision is a rail line owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad as part of the Central Corridor in the U.S. states of Nevada and Utah.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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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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Spring Garden Tunnel
The Spring Garden Tunnel at in Spring Garden, California is the longest of 34 tunnels on the Feather River Route (cf. Chilcoot Tunnel) and crosses under the drainage divide between the East Branch North Fork Feather River (north portal) and the Middle Fork Feather River (south portal).
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Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.
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Toano Range
The Toano Range is a mountain range located in eastern Elko County, Nevada in the United States.
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Tobin Bridges
The Tobin Bridges are two bridges for highway and railroad crossings of the North Fork Feather River that nearly cross at the west side of the river.
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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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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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Wells, Nevada
Wells is a small city in Elko County, in northeast Nevada in the western United States.
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Western Pacific Railroad
The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States.
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Western Pacific Railroad Museum
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) in Portola, California, formerly known as the Portola Railroad Museum before, is a heritage railroad that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment.
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Williams Loop
The Williams Loop is a rail spiral located on the Union Pacific Railroad's (originally Western Pacific Railroad's) Feather River Route through the Sierra Nevada mountains in northeastern California, connecting the Sacramento Valley to Salt Lake City via the Feather River canyons.
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Winnemucca, Nevada
Winnemucca is the only incorporated city in and is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_River_Route
