Sierra Railroad

Sierra Railroad

The Sierra Railroad Company, was founded in 1897 to connect the California Central Valley to the Gold Country foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Its historic western terminus has always been in Oakdale where a junction was once formed with both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Southern Pacific. The Santa Fe's (now BNSF Railway] Oakdale Branch provided one freight outlet to the AT&SF mainline at Riverbank, California; the SP Oakdale Branch from Stockton was abandoned and torn out in the early 1980s.

The Sierra Railroad Company's freight division, the Sierra Northern Railway handles all track maintenance and freight operations for all branches owned by the Sierra Railroad Company.

The railroad's Sierra Entertainment group operates the diesel- and steam-powered Sierra Railroad Dinner Train (Oakdale), the Sacramento RiverTrain (Woodland-Sacramento) and the Skunk Train (Fort Bragg-Willits). The Dinner Train offers romantic dinners, fun murder mysteries, lunches, Sunday brunches, wild west shows, and wine tasting. In addition, Sierra Entertainment makes its tracks available for Hollywood movie productions.

Sierra Railroad is a privately-owned common carrier and should not be confused with the "Sierra Railway" or Railtown 1897, these being a portion of the former SRR earlier conveyed by the railroad's historic owners, the Crocker Family, to the California State Park System. "Sierra Railway" preserves the original operating name of the entire line and is headquartered at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, CA.

Sierra has a third division Sierra Energy [http://sierraenergycorp.com/] that involves a variety of energy projects.

ee also

*List of heritage railroads in the United States

External links

* http://www.sierrarailroad.com
* http://www.sierranorthern.com
* http://sierraenergycorp.com/
* http://www.csrmf.org/railtown/default.asp


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