LONGEST INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILROAD IN THE US

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  @pauldavis1943 · 2 years ago

  Always makes me sad to think these electric lines existed and we tore them up

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  @myob97219 · 2 years ago

  My grandfather, Robert &quot;Bob&quot; Sant, worked for the SN from 1931 to 1971 as a power electrician and from the late forties as the general power foreman. He started at the Concord sub-station tending rotary power converters, and as general foreman was also responsible for overhead wire, signals, and dispatcher telephones from Oakland to Chico on the far north end of the system.<br><br>In 1951 he was required to move to Sacramento where maintenance of the Tower Bridge lift system was added to his responsibilities. He lamented the fact that when he was made general power foreman, his primary task was to eventually dismantle the electric system from Oakland to the last electric holdout in Yuba City (on the old Northern Electric) as the SN dieselized. He saw almost all of the history shown in this video.

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• JA

  @JawTooth · 2 years ago

  This Iowa Traction Railway is a must see for railfans. &nbsp;It still operates a common carrier freight railroad under electric power with locomotives over 100 years old. &nbsp;It still runs to this day and I have filmed it myself.

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• FO

  @Fofos828 · 2 years ago

  Now i have the urge to build and n scale layout

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• RA

  @RaineStudio · 1 year ago

  A typical story. When the Oakland, Antioch, and Eastern Railway was surveyed and built, Shafter Avenue was a couple of lines on a plat with precious few structures. The houses mostly came later and the residents CHOSE to live next to a rail line.

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• AL

  @albertcarello619 · 2 years ago

  Now we miss these RAILROADS and wish they were running today.

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• JA

  @jaminova_1969 · 2 years ago

  I wouldn&apos;t mind having a train that close! I&apos;m always amazed when people move next to the tracks or airport and then complain!

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• PA

  @paralyzes · 2 years ago

  I could watch these electrified trains all day long. &nbsp;Having them operating on my residential street would have been so C O O L!

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• CH

  @charlessmileyvideos · 2 years ago

  We love the Sacramento Northern! &nbsp;More at <a href="http://www.cspmovies.com/">www.cspmovies.com</a>

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• JE

  @JessicaKasumi1990 · 2 years ago

  If you want to explore this route virtually, G-Trax has made the South End of the SN for Train Simulator Classic 2024 by Dovetail Games. Worth every penny.

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• MI

  @michaelodonnell8209 · 2 years ago

  How amazing to think Concord was a rural area of farms and orchards late into the 1950&apos;s. &nbsp;That countryside has now been replaced with suburbia and traffic jams on the freeways. &nbsp;You cannot stop progress. &nbsp; Like the comment below, there is a certain sadness to the changes. &nbsp;This is an outstanding film, and a job well done. &nbsp;At least someone had the vision to capture the final days.

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• NE

  @nerd3d-com · 1 year ago

  When I lived in Chico in the 1980&apos;s the line still ran down Main st. to the Northern Star Mill. I remember the trains waiting at stop lights with the rest of the cars.

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