Tidewater Southern Railway

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Tidewater Southern Railway

Overview
Headquarters	Stockton, California
Reporting mark	TS
Locale	Central California
Dates of operation	1910–1987
Successor	Union Pacific
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 1,200 V DC
Length	85 mi (137 km)[1]
Route map Legend Stockton Washington Street Hazelton Avenue ATSF South Street Glass Brickyard Ortega Manteca Junction North Manteca Manteca South Manteca Turner Summer Home Oak Point Five Corners Atlanta Simms Wagner Carrolton Van Allen Winetondale Sexton Volstead Brennan Escalon Ullery Avenue Jones Wigley Meyers Gravel Pit Stewart McHenry Bangs Avenue Standiford Orangeburg Avenue Aurora Coldwell Avenue Ice Plant Junction N Street Modesto SP Moore Rogers Harp Grange Gilman Shoemake Hatch Leedom Joyce McGill Cooper Turlock Chatom Tegner Ahlen Hilmar This diagram: view talk edit

The Tidewater Southern Railway was a short line railroad in Central California in the United States. For most of its history, it was a subsidiary of the Western Pacific Railroad. It was originally built as an interurban system, connecting to the Central California Traction Company, Western Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Stockton, California. Its mainline went southeast from Stockton to Escalon, California and thence to Modesto, California before splitting into two branches ending at the towns of Turlock and Hilmar. Until the mid-1930s, there were plans to extend the line to Fresno and even toward the Los Angeles area. Today, much of the line is still operated by the Union Pacific Railroad. Of all the former interurban railroads in California, the former Tidewater Southern retains the highest percentage of still operating trackage.