Dave's Transportation Links Page

Transportation links:

• Altamont Commuter Express, rail service between Stockton and Silicon Valley is here.
  • Brought to you by the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission.
• AMTRAK Information from the National Passenger Railroad Corporation.
  • Amtrak's Internet Reservation System
  • Train Arrival Information
• Amtrak West, a partnership of AMTRAK and the California Department of Transportation. This site primarily covers the San Diegan trains in southern California.
  • The Coast Starlight, which runs up and down the west coast, has its own web page.
  • The Capitol Corridor trains, which run from San Jose to Sacramento. The Capitols are now administered by BART but the BART site doesn't have any information about them. I'm still looking.
    • Read about early trips on the Capitol Corridor trains.
    • Read about our AMTRAK trips to Cal Expo, the California Exposition & State Fair in Sacramento.
• B.A.R.T. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, with service to numerous bay area cities. (Old site.)
• Burlington Northern-Santa Fé Railroad
• California Western Railroad, home of the Skunk Trains.
• California State Railroad Museum, Second at "I" Streets, Old Sacramento.
• C.T.R.C. California Trolley and Railroad Corporation including the Santa Clara Valley Railroad Association.
  Read about the Southern Pacific 2479 Baldwin P-10 heavy Pacific (4-6-2) (with photographs!)
  and the Santa Clara County Railroad Museum with historical photographs and an artist's conception
  of the museum to be built at the Fairgrounds.
• CalTrain The Peninsula Commute Service - San Francisco to San Jose and Gilroy.
  • Read about my Amtrak Police-CalTrain Ride-along.
    • To report an emergency at a CalTrain facility or on board a train, call AMTRAK POLICE at 800-331-0008.
• Flimsies ... West!, the only newsmagazine of western railroading.
• Feather River Rail Society, owner and operator of the Portola Railroad Museum.
• Golden Gate Railroad Museum. Usually includes information about upcoming 2472 trips.
• Lake Tahoe Airport, South Lake Tahoe CA.
• Light Rail.Com.
• Mercurio, the European Railway Server, including
  • My First EuroStar Trip by Erik Evrard, and
  • A Journey By Eurostar Train Through The Channel Tunnel by Steve Sangwine.
• METRO, Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
• Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.
  • New York City Transit
    • The Complete Subway System Map download - Adobe Acrobat reader required.
  • Long Island Rail Road.
  • Long Island Bus.
  • Metro-North Railroad.
  • Bridges and Tunnels.
• The Napa Valley Wine Train.
• NETransit, The New England Transportation Site. Lots of pictures.
• Railroad Photo Archive, Ron Lehmer's color photos of mostly southern California trains.
• SFO - San Francisco International Airport
• San Francisco Municipal Railway.
  • Cable Car Museum
• San Jose International Airport, Gateway to Silicon Valley.
  • SJC Air Traffic Control Center, located on the west side of the airport; curiously enough in the City of Santa Clara.
• Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA). Announcements, Information, Schedules, Maps, Telephone Numbers.
• Southern California Railroad Resources.
• Southern Pacific Railroad Links. Southern Pacific has merged into Union Pacific.
• TrainOrders.Com, see almost-live pictures from the Tehachapi RailCam, and more.
• U.P.R.R., The Union Pacific Railroad, including the former Western Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads.