List of California interurban railroads

Main article is List of California railroads

Defunct Trolleys/Interurbans/Electric Railroads/Horsecar

*Alameda, Oakland and Piedmont Railway 3' Narrow Gauge Horsecar c. 1870
*California Midland Railroad (of 1905) Marysville
*California Terminal Company 1911
**Lakeport and Richardson's Bay Railroad
*Central California Traction "currently an active Class III freight railroad" Interurban Discontinued in 1933
*Fresno Traction Company predecessor Fresno City Railway Co. Electric October 1902-May 20, 1939 (Horse drawn January 25, 1889 - September 1901)
*Glendale and Montrose Railway
*Holton Interurban Railway "later SP"
*Interurban Electric Railroad (IER) an SP subsidiary Oakland
**East Bay Electric Lines an SP subsidiary
*Los Angeles Railway "a narrow gauge interurban"
**Central Railroad (of California)
***City Railroad
****Central and Boyle Heights Railroad Horsecar Narrow Gauge 1885
***Spring and West Sixth Street Railroad 1874-1884 Horsecar Narrow Gauge
**Los Angeles and Redondo Railway
***Redondo Railway Company
****Rosencrans Railroad Company
*Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway "abandoned in 1919"
**San Diego, Pacific Beach and La Jolla Railway
***San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach Railroad
****San Diego and Pacific Beach Railway
****San Diego and Old Town Railway
*Modesto Interurban Railway 1909-1911 "later MET"
*Monterey, Fresno and Eastern Railroad
**Watsonville Transportation Company 1903-1907 3'6" Narrow Gauge
*Mount Tamalpais and Muir Wood Railway "abandoned 1930"
**Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway 1896-1913
*Orange Grove Street Railway 1888-1896
*Second Street Railroad Narrow Gauge Horsecar Pomona
*Pacific Gas and Electric Company
**West Sacramento Electric Company 1914 (Proposed)
*San Diego Electric Railway
*San Francisco and Napa Valley Railroad "abandoned, in phases during period 1938-1956"
**San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway "1911-1936"
***San Francisco, Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad "1906-1911"
****Vallejo, Benicia and Napa Valley Railroad "1902-1910"
*Santa Rosa Railroad 1903-1923 (Later Northwestern Pacific Railroad)
**Santa Rosa Street Railway (Later Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad)
***Union Street Railway Narrow Gauge (Sonoma County) 1893-1897
****South Side Street Railway/South Side Railway Narrow Gauge Horsecar 1888-1893
*Second Street Cable Railway "closed in 1890"
*Shasta Springs Scenic Railroad 1888 cable
*Sierra Madre Street Railway 1887-1890/1891 Narrow Gauge Mule car Los Angeles
*South Beach and Mission Railway c. 1862 San Francisco
*Southern California Motor Road Company Narrow Gauge 1886-1892 Leased to SP San Bernardino-Colton
*Southern California Rapid Transit District Metro Rail 1975-1986 now part of Los Angeles Metro Rail
*Stockton Electric Railway 1881/1891-1905
**Stockton Street Railway 1874-1881/1891 Horsecar
*Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad now a Freight Railroad 1908 - Present
*Telegraph Hill Railroad Cable San Francisco 1884-?
* Tidewater Southern Railway (TS) "later WP"
**Tidewater and Southern Transit Company "1912"
***Tidewater and Southern Railroad "1910-1912"
*Tuscan Mineral Springs Corporation Electric Railway 1903-? Red Bluff-Tuscan Springs

*Union Traction Company of Santa Cruz Narrow Gauge 1904-?
**East Santa Cruz Railroad Horsecar
**Santa Cruz, Capitola and Watsonville Railway
*Ventura and Ojai Railway 1901-? Horsecar
*Visalia and Tulare Railroad "abandoned 1900"
*Visalia Electric Railroad 1904-1992, to SP in 1992
**Chowchilla Pacific Railway
*Volcano Northern Railroad 1903 (Amador County)
*Visalia Rail Road "to SP in 1899"
*Watsonville Railroad and Navigation Company 1905
*West Coast Land Company aka San Luis Street Railway Narrow Gauge Horsecar 1890-1906
**San Luis Obispo Street Railway
*Woodland Street Railway 1887-? Narrow Gauge Horsecar

Key System Railway (San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways)

*Alameda County Terminal Railway from part of the Alameda County Railway (see below)
*Alameda, Oakland and Piedmont Electric Railroad 1893-1923
*East Shore and Suburban Railway
*Oakland Traction Company 1906-1912
**Berkeley Traction Company
**Oakland Traction Consolidated 1904-1906
***Oakland Transit Consolidated 1902-1904
****Oakland Transit Company 1901
*****California Railway 1890-1901
******Alameda and Oakland Horsecar Railroad 1870-1892
******Oakland, Alameda and Laundry Farm Railroad 1888-1890
*******Alameda County Railway
*****Central Avenue Railway 1892-1898 Narrow Gauge Oakland
******Central Avenue Railroad 1889-1892 Narrow Gauge Proposed Cable
*****Oakland Consolidated Street Railway
*****Central Avenue Railway
*****Piedmont and Mountain View Railway
*****East Oakland Street Railway
*****Highland Park and Fruitvale Railroad
*****Oakland Railroad
******Oakland Cable Railway
******San Pablo Railroad (San Pablo Avenue Horsecar Railroad)
****Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway Consolidated
*****Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway
*****Twenty-Third Avenue Electric Railway
***Webster Street and Park Railway/Webster and Lake Park Railroad
*San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Consolidated Railway

Municipal Railway of San Francisco (MUNI)

*Ferries and Cliff House Railway
**California Street Cable Railroad 1884-
***California Street Railway Cable 1878-1884
*Market Street Railway 1921-1944
**United Railroads of San Francisco Various Gauges 1902-1921
***San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway
***Sutter Street Railroad 1901-?
****Sutter Street Railway 1879-1901
*****Sutro Railroad 1894-1897
*****Sutter Street Wire Cable Railway ~1877-1879 Cable 5' Gauge
******Front, Mission and Ocean Railroad Horsecar
**Central Railroad (of California) 5' gauge Horsecar 1861-1893
**Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railroad 1883-1893
**South San Francisco Railroad and Power Company 1903-1909 Sold to Market St Ry, other part abandoned 1938
**Southern Heights and Visitation Valley Railway ~1893
*San Jose and Santa Clara Railroad
**People's Horse Railroad 1877-1882
***South-East-Side Horse Railroad San Jose 1877 Narrow Gauge Horsecar

Pacific Electric Railway (PE) "later SP"

1902
**Brooklyn Avenue Railway
**East Ninth Street Railway
**Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway
***California Pacific Railway Narrow Gauge 1899-1901 PE's Torrance Line
***Los Angeles Traction
***Los Angeles and Glendale Railway
***California Pacific Railway
****Santa Ana and Orange Motor Railway
****San Gabriel Rapid Transit Railway
**East Ninth Street Railway
**Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway/Los Angeles and Pasadena Railway
***Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway
****West Pasadena Railway 1887-1894
*****Colorado Street Railway
**Los Angeles and Redondo Railway
***Redondo Railway
**Los Angeles Pacific Company
***Pasadena and Pacific Railway Company of California
****Los Angeles County Railroad
****Ostrich Farm Railway
**Pacific Electric Railway Company of Arizona
**Pasadena and Mount Lowe Railway/Mount Lowe Railway
***Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway
**Redlands Central Railway
**Riverside and Arlington Railway
**San Bernardino Interurban Railway
**San Bernardino Valley Traction
***Redlands Street Railway
***San Bernardino and Highlands Electric Railway
**Santa Ana and Orange Railway
**Temple Street Cable Railway/Temple Street Railway Narrow Gauge 1885-1902
**Terracina and Redlands Street Railway Narrow Gauge Mule Power 1892-1895 Property Sold to PE

acramento Northern Railway (SN) 1925-1987

SN later became a subsidiary of the Western Pacific Railroad, then Union Pacific Railroad.
**Sacramento Northern Railroad 1918-1925
***Northern Electric Railway 1907-1918
****Northern Electric Company 1905-1907
*****Chico Electric Railway 1904-1905
*****Marysville and Yuba Street Railroad 1889-1906
****Shasta Southern Railway 1905-1907
****Vallejo and Northern Railroad 1910-1912
*****Vallejo and Northern Railway 1909-1910
***Sacramento Terminal Company 1908-1918
***Northern Electric Railway-Marysville and Colusa Branch 1910-1918
***Sacramento and Woodland Railroad 1911-1918
**San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad "1920-1928"
***Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway "1911-1920"
****Oakland and Antioch Railway "1909-1911"
***West Side Railroad 1911-1921 Proposed to build to Rio Vista

Proposed Lines

*Bakersfield and Ventura Railway Electric 1902
*Bay and Coast Railway 1899 Narrow Gauge Electric & Common Carrier
*Bay Counties Electric Railroad 1905-1907
*Bay Counties Power Company Electric 1902
*Benicia Land and Terminal Railway 1914 Electric
*Big Four Electric Railway 1912-1914
*California Electric Railway 1909
*California Pacific Railroad (of 1901) Los Angeles-San Pedro
*California Rapid Transit Railroad 1907 San Francisco-San Jose-Monterey & San Jose-Martinez
*California Terminal Railway 1914-1915/1916 San Francisco-Marin/Sonoma/Napa/Yolo/Sacramento Counties
*Sausalito Incline Street Railway 1914 Cable/Electric Sausalito
*Scotts Creek Railway 1908 Santa Cruz County
*Sierra County Railroad 1911 Sacramento-Sierra
*Sonoma and Lake County Electric Railway Lakeport-Cloverdale 1907
*Sonoma and Lake County Railroad (of 1907) Lakeport-Cloverdale
*Highland Pacific Railroad 1909
**Sonoma and Lake County Railway 1909 Lakeport-Cloverdale-Preston
*Southern California Beach Railway 1912-1914 Colton-San Diego
*Stockton and Bay City Short Line Railroad 1911-1912 Stockton-Byron-Antioch-Oakland
*Stockton and Lodi Terminal Railroad 1895 Stockton-Lodi
*Tidewater Northern Railway 1909-1910 Santa Monica-Ventura
*Tulare County Power Company 1911-1912
*Turlock Traction Company 1911 Turlock-Denair
*Union Belt Railway 1906 Sacramento
*University Heights Motor Road 1886-1888 San Diego
*Vallejo Traction Company 1910 Vallejo
*Valley Railroad 1912 Red Bluff-Woodland-Davis-Dixon to connect with Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway
*Ventura Terminal Railway 1907/1908
*Yosemite Park Electric Railway 1904
*Yucaipa and Oak Glen Railroad 1908 Standard or Narrow Gauge Electric Yucaipa-Redlands

References

*cite book | author=Fickewirth, Alvin A.| title=California Railroads| location=San Marino, California | publisher=Golden West Books| year=1992| editor=| id=ISBN 0-87095-106-8
*cite book | author=Robertson, Donald B.| title=Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History - Volume IV - California| location=Caldwell, ID | publisher=The Caxton Printers, Ltd | year=1998| editor=| id=ISBN 0-87004-385-4
*cite book | author=Hamm, Edward Jr.| title=When Fresno Rode the Rails| location=Glendale, California | publisher=Interurbans| year=1979| editor=| id=ISBN 0-916374-37-8