Cal-P Corridor

About Cal-P Corridor

The California Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated in 1865 at San Francisco, California as the California Pacific Rail Road Company. It was renamed the California Pacific Railroad Extension Company in the spring of 1869, then renamed the California Pacific Railroad later that same year. The railroad was constructed just months prior to the completion of the Central Pacific/Union Pacific Transcontinental Railway.

The railroad ran from Sacramento to Vallejo and thence via passenger ferryboat to San Francisco. It also had a branch from Adelante (later Napa Junction, now American Canyon) to Calistoga and another from Davis to Marysville.

The Cal-P operated independently from 1865 to 1876. It was then operated by the Central Pacific and was finally sold to the Southern Pacific.

Today, Amtrak's Capitol Corridor follows the original Cal-P Line from Sacramento to Suisun/Fairfield on its way to Oakland and San Jose.
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The focus of today's Cal-P Corridor is from Sacramento (I Street), California to Oakland's Jack London Square on Union Pacific's Martinez and Niles Subdivisions.

The group is dedicated to the scenes captured along this beautiful rail-corridor and its immediate vicinity.

All photographs shown here are the sole property of the respective photographer and may be removed at the discretion of the owner and/or administration of this group

Please, also visit our sister groups;
Donner Pass; www.flickr.com/groups/donnerpass/
Expressions of Northern California Railroading: www.flickr.com/groups/eoncr/
Northern California Rails: www.flickr.com/groups/norcalrails/
San Joaquin Rails: www.flickr.com/groups/sjvrails/