Santa Rosa and Carquinez Railroad

Santa Rosa and Carquinez Railroad
This station was located at the Santa Rosa terminal rail yard adjacent to North Street between 13th and 14th streets.
Overview
LocaleCalifornia
Dates of operation1888–1935
SuccessorSouthern Pacific
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length35.7 miles (57.5 km)
Route map

Santa Rosa
Melitta
Los Guilicos
Kenwood
Wildwood
Glen Ellen
El Verano
Schellville
Buchli
Suisun Branch

The Santa Rosa and Carquinez Railroad was completed in 1888 from a terminal rail yard in Santa Rosa, California, through the Valley of the Moon to Sonoma, and then south through Schellville and east across the northern San Francisco Bay wetlands to a connection with the national rail network at Napa Junction north of Vallejo. The line was part of the Southern Pacific subsidiary Northern Railway until formally merged into the Southern Pacific in 1898. It was operationally known as Southern Pacific's Santa Rosa Branch or Sonoma Valley Branch.[1] The railroad avoided the ferries of San Francisco Bay providing direct transportation to eastern markets for agricultural products of the Sonoma County wine region; and dimension stone from the basalt quarries in what is now Annadel State Park became a major source of freight revenue.[2] The Santa Rosa terminal rail yard was on the north side of College Avenue approximately one mile northeast of the earlier Santa Rosa Downtown station now served by SMART.

  1. ^ Roberson, C.S. "Northern Railway". Sonoma Valley. localwiki. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Annadel SP Information Document Final". PDFSECRET. State of California. Retrieved 29 January 2019.