Sierra Railroad
The Sierra Railroad, 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 continues to haul freight between Oakdale and Keystone, carries passengers in special themed excursion trains, and makes its tracks available for Hollywood movie productions.
The railroad's Sierra Entertainment group operates the diesel-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.
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.
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External links
http://www.csrmf.org/railtown/default.asp
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