Transportation in Humboldt County, California - Northwestern Pacific Railroad, West Coast Lumber Trade, Arcata-Eureka Airport (Paperback)

Chapters: Northwestern Pacific Railroad, West Coast Lumber Trade, Arcata-Eureka Airport, San Francisco and Northwestern Railway, Arcata and Mad River Railroad, Murray Field, Rohnerville Airport, Eureka Municipal Airport, Kneeland Airport, Shelter Cove Airport, Garberville Airport, Nec Green Wheels. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (reporting mark NWP) was a regional railroad serving California's North Coast. The railroad ran from the North Bay at Sausalito to Eureka, California, primarily near the U.S. Route 101 corridor. The NWP ran an electrified interurban commuter railroad in Marin County until 1941. The opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 caused commuters to shift from the train-ferry service to commuting by bus and car. The NWP was merged into the Southern Pacific in 1992, only four years before the Union Pacific/Southern Pacific merger. NWP Freight is planned on starting in July of 2010, from the California Northern interchange at Schellville, north to Windsor. Plans are set to have freight trains to Willits, CA by 2014. The Northwestern Pacific will run along the same route Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit, which will travel from Larkspur to Cloverdale. Mesa Grande train station, about 1910 462,6Samoa Southern Pacific Railroad controlled the NWP line from Schellville to Willits while Santa Fe Railroad controlled the northern end of NWP built by Humboldt County lumber companies. Both major railroads wanted rail connection to the redwood lumber mills around Humboldt Bay. Southern Pacific planned to extend its California Northwestern Railway down the Eel River from Willits, while Santa Fe planned to extend their San Francisco and Northwestern Railway up the South Fork Eel River through Lake County to c...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=320637