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| Northwestern Pacific Railroad |
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NWP #1922 running freight near Petaluma, California; October 21, 2011 |
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| Status | Operational (partial) |
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| Owner | Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit |
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| Termini | |
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| Website | SMART Freight
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| System | NWP |
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| Operator(s) | NWPco
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit |
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| Depot(s) | Freight: Schellville
Passenger: Mark West |
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| Opened | 1907 (1907) |
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| 1989 | North Coast Rail Authority established |
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| 2011 | Service begins under NWPRA |
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| Line length | 271 mi (436 km)
62 mi (100 km) (operational) |
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| Character | freight and commuter railroad |
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| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
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455.8 |
Mad River Slough |
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447.4 |
Gannon |
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444.6 |
Bracut |
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438.8 |
Freshwater Slough |
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438.0 |
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436.4 |
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430.4 |
Elk River |
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426.3 |
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424.0 |
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418.9 |
Salmon Creek |
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416.8 |
Tunnel 40 |
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415.4 |
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414.9 |
| Swauger Creek & | | Eel River Drive |
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408.4 |
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407.6 |
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405.7 |
Strong's Creek |
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405.0 |
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402.1 |
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400.6 |
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396.2 |
Stone |
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393.0 |
Nanning Creek |
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391.6 |
Yoder |
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391.5 |
Wildwood Avenue |
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390.8 |
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387.9 |
Glynn |
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385.6 |
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384.2 |
Stitz Creek |
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376.8 |
Tunnel 39 |
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376.3 |
Panther Creek |
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375.7 |
Shively Creek |
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371.8 |
Tunnel 38 |
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369.0 |
Larabee Creek |
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368.5 |
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365.1 |
Weber Creek |
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361.8 |
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359.8 |
Dyerville Loop Road |
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356.2 |
Tunnel 37 |
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350.2 |
Sonoma Creek |
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347.9 |
Tunnel 36 |
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346.6 |
Tunnel 35 |
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345.0 |
Tunnel 34 |
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342.0 |
Eel Rock |
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336.6 |
Brock Creek |
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Tunnel 31 |
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320.5 |
Fort Seward Creek |
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Tunnel 30 |
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315.4 |
Zenia Road |
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303.3 |
Tunnel 29 |
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302.3 |
Kekawaka |
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301.8 |
Kekawaka Creek |
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301.5 |
Tunnel 28 |
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300.5 |
Queatchumpah Creek |
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Quarry Spur |
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294.0 |
Tunnel 27 |
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293.3 |
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282.8 |
Tunnel 24 |
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277.8 |
Bell Springs Creek |
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Tunnel 23 |
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274.4 |
Blue Rock Creek |
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269.8 |
Spy Rock |
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268.5 |
Tunnel 22 |
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266.8 |
Shell Rock Creek |
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263.4 |
Tunnel 21 |
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262.6 |
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262.3 |
Tunnel 20 |
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256.2 |
Woodman Creek |
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Tunnel 18 |
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255.6 |
Woodman |
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Tunnel 17 |
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249.6 |
Berger Creek |
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Tunnel 16 |
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Tunnel 15 |
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Tunnel 14 |
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Farley |
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Tunnel 13 |
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Tunnel 12 |
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Tunnel 11 |
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207.8 |
Little Lake |
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205.0 |
Willits |
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Ridge |
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180.2 |
Laughlin |
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Norlake |
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Ackerman Creek |
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Presswood |
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Robinson Creek |
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Feliz Creek |
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Tunnel 9 |
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Commiskey Creek |
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Tunnel 7 |
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Tunnel 6 |
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Tunnel 5 |
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Cloverdale (NWP) |
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Cloverdale Depot (planned) |
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Omus |
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Healdsburg (planned) |
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Bailhache |
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Grant |
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Windsor |
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Shiloh |
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Sonoma County Airport |
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| SMART | | Rail Operations Center |
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Santa Rosa North |
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Santa Rosa |
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Todd Road |
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Rohnert Park |
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Cotati |
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Crown |
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Petaluma North |
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Park Siding |
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Petaluma |
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Novato San Marin |
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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a 271-mile (436 km) mainline railroad from the former ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka, with a connection to the national railroad system at Schellville. The railroad has gone through a complex history of different ownership and operators but has maintained a generic name of reference as the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, despite no longer being officially named that.
Currently, only a 62-mile (100 km) stretch of mainline from Larkspur to the Sonoma County Airport in Windsor and east to Schellville on the “south end” is operated by Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART), which operates both commuter and freight trains with plans for future extension north to Cloverdale. The “north end” from Willits to Eureka (which includes connections to the California Western Railroad) is currently out of service, but saved by 2018 legislation to be converted into the Great Redwood Trail.
