California Northern Railroad

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California Northern Railroad

CFNR #105 EMD GP15-1.
Overview
Headquarters	Woodland, California
Reporting mark	CFNR
Locale	Northern California
Dates of operation	1993–present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	255 mi (410 km)[1]
Other
Website	gwrr.com/cfnr

v t e California Northern Railroad
Legend
Schellville–Suisun
Dist. Station 63.4 Schellville Trackage Rights via NWP Napa Valley Railroad Streblo Rocktram Middleton 62.0 Lombard 61.0 Napa Junction to Mare Island Vallejo 54.2 Cordelia Cordelia Tunnel 51.1 Busch Sheldon United 48.9 Suisun/Fairfield UP Martinez Subdivision
Tehama–Davis
UP Valley Subdivision at 186.3 Tehama 181.6 Richfield 178.5 Corning 167.0 Branch to Hamilton at Wyo 165.4 Orland 156.8 Artois Branch to Johns Manville 149.9 Willows 138.3 Delavan 133.0 Maxwell 129.1 Cortena 124.2 Williams 117.6 Genevra 113.5 Arbuckle 108.3 Harrington 106.4 Adams 103.2 Dunnigan 95.8 Zamora 92.1 Dufour 89.9 Yolo 84.9 Woodland 75.6 UP Martinez Subdivision at Davis
Tracy–Los Banos
UP Tracy Subdivision Tracy Lyoth UP Oakland Subdivision Vernalis Solyo Westly Patterson Crows Landing Newman Gustine Ingomar CAHSR Volta Los Banos Fresno

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 Park-Sierra Rail Group (owner David L. Parkinson of St. Helena, California), who also owned the Arizona and California Railroad and the Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad. The CFNR was later sold to RailAmerica in 2002.^[1] Genesee & Wyoming, another shortline holding company, bought RailAmerica in December 2012.

The railroad transports mainly food and agricultural commodities, as well as stone products. It moved around 26,000 carloads of goods in 2008.^[1]