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The Antelope Valley Line is a commuter rail line that serves the Northern Los Angeles County area as part of the Metrolink system. The northern segment of the line is rural in character because it travels through the sparsely populated Soledad Canyon between Santa Clarita and Palmdale, serving the small community of Acton along the way.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Surf Line is a railroad line that runs from San Diego north to Orange County along California 's Pacific Coast. It was so named because much of the line is near the Pacific Ocean, within less than 100 feet (30 m) in some places. The tracks are now owned by the Orange County Transportation ...
California Northern Railroad. CFNR #105 EMD GP15-1. The California Northern Railroad ( reporting mark CFNR) is one of several Class III short-line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. It operates over Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) tracks (now Union Pacific Railroad) under a long-term lease. The CFNR was originally owned by the ...
SS California was the World's first major ocean liner built with turbo-electric propulsion. [9] When launched in 1927 she was also the largest merchant ship yet built in the US, [10] although she was a modest size compared with the biggest European liners of her era. In 1938 California was renamed SS Uruguay. [3]
James E. Birch (November 30, 1827 – September 1857) was a stagecoach line entrepreneur, founder of the California Stage Company, the largest stage line in California in the 1850s; and in 1857 the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, the first transcontinental mail route in the United States. [1]
The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California 's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate, with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter.
Path 66 is composed of one segment of TANC, PG&E and PacifiCorp 500 kV lines. The TANC line route starts at Captain Jack Substation ( 42°04′47.1″N 121°23′24.0″W) north of Malin and 6.5 mi (10.5 km) northwest of the Malin Substation, where the other 500 kV lines start (owned by PacifiCorp and PG&E). These substations, just north of the ...
On February 6, 57-year-old Patricia Dowd of San Jose, California became the first COVID-19 death in the United States discovered by April 2020. She died at home without any known recent foreign travel, after being unusually sick from flu in late January, then recovering, remote working, and suddenly dying on February 6.