Bayshore Cutoff, the Glossary

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1. 62 relations: Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bayshore Freeway, Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco, Boiler, Brisbane Baylands development, Brisbane, California, Butler Road station, Caltrain, Caltrain Express, Caltrain Modernization Program, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, Classification yard, Colma, California, Commuter rail, Cow Palace, Daly City, California, Del Monte (train), Double-track railway, Dual carriageway, Dumbarton Rail Bridge, E. H. Harriman, El Camino Real (California), Gantry crane, Great Salt Lake, Harold and Maude, Headway, Inflation, Interstate 280 (California), Interstate 380 (California), Islais Creek, Lucin Cutoff, Mission District, San Francisco, National Register of Historic Places, Ocean View Branch, Pacific Fruit Express, Pajaro River, Passenger rail terminology, Peninsula Commute, Potrero Hill, Quadruple-track railway, Rail yard, Railway roundhouse, Railway turntable, Roseville, California, San Bruno Mountain, San Bruno, California, San Francisco, San Francisco 4th and King Street station, San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, San Francisco Bay, ... Expand index (12 more) »

2. Railroad cutoffs
3. Southern Pacific Railroad lines
4. Transport infrastructure completed in 1907
5. Transportation in San Francisco

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Bayshore Freeway

The Bayshore Freeway is a part of U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco

Bayview–Hunters Point (sometimes spelled Bay View or Bayview) is the San Francisco, California, neighborhood combining the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods in the southeastern corner of the city.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Brisbane Baylands development

The Brisbane Baylands is a parcel of land in Brisbane, just south of the San Francisco border.

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Brisbane, California

Brisbane (pron.) is a small city in San Mateo County, California, located on the lower slopes of the San Bruno Mountain.

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Butler Road station

Butler Road station was a train station in South San Francisco, California, in operation until July 1983 on the Peninsula Commute, a commuter rail service run by Southern Pacific between San Francisco and communities on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Caltrain

Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley).

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Caltrain Express

The Caltrain Express (CTX) project was implemented from 2002 to 2004 and led to the establishment of the Baby Bullet express service, which shortened the transit time between San Francisco and San Jose, and certain stations in between. New locomotives and rolling stock were purchased for dedicated express service, bypassing most stations; quad-track overtake sections were added in two locations along the Peninsula Corridor right-of-way to allow express trains to pass slower local trains that were making all stops; tracks were also upgraded with continuous-welded rail; a centralized traffic control system was added; and crossovers were added every few miles to allow single-tracking trains around disabled trains.

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Caltrain Modernization Program

The Caltrain Modernization Program (CalMod), sometimes referred to as the Caltrain Electrification Project, is a $2.44 billion project that will add a positive train control (PTC) system and electrify the main line of the U.S. commuter railroad Caltrain, which serves cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley, as well as transition from its current diesel-electric locomotive powered trains to electric multiple units (EMU).

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Candlestick Point State Recreation Area

Candlestick Point State Recreation Area (or simply Candlestick Point) is a state park unit of California, United States, providing an urban protected area on San Francisco Bay.

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Classification yard

A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.

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Colma, California

Colma (Ohlone for "Springs") is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.

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Cow Palace

The Cow Palace (originally the California State Livestock Pavilion) is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

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Daly City, California

Daly City is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Del Monte (train)

The Del Monte was a passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Francisco and Monterey, California.

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Double-track railway

A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (BrE) or a divided highway (AmE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE).

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Dumbarton Rail Bridge

The Dumbarton Rail Bridge lies just to the south of the Dumbarton road bridge. Bayshore Cutoff and Dumbarton Rail Bridge are railroad cutoffs.

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E. H. Harriman

Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American financier and railroad executive.

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El Camino Real (California)

El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, often translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.

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Gantry crane

A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Headway

Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system measured in space or time.

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Inflation

In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.

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Interstate 280 (California)

Interstate 280 (I-280) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Interstate 380 (California)

Interstate 380 (I-380) is a short east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, connecting I-280 in San Bruno to US Route 101 (US 101) near San Francisco International Airport.

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Islais Creek

Islais Creek or Islais Creek Channel (previously known as Du Vrees Creek, Islais Channel and Islais Swamp) is a small creek in San Francisco, California.

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Lucin Cutoff

The Lucin Cutoff is a railroad line in Utah, United States that runs from Ogden to its namesake in Lucin. Bayshore Cutoff and Lucin Cutoff are railroad cutoffs and Southern Pacific Railroad lines.

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Mission District, San Francisco

The Mission District (Spanish: Distrito de la Misión), commonly known as the Mission (Spanish: La Misión), is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Ocean View Branch

The Ocean View Branch was a railroad line between San Francisco and San Bruno, California. Bayshore Cutoff and Ocean View Branch are Southern Pacific Railroad lines.

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Pacific Fruit Express

Pacific Fruit Express was an American railroad refrigerator car leasing company headquartered in San Francisco.

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Pajaro River

The Pajaro River (pájaro is bird in Spanish) is a U.S. river in the Central Coast region of California, forming part of the border between San Benito and Santa Clara Counties, the entire border between San Benito and Santa Cruz County, and the entire border between Santa Cruz and Monterey County.

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Passenger rail terminology

Various terms are used for passenger railway lines and equipment; the usage of these terms differs substantially between areas.

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Peninsula Commute

The Peninsula Commute, also known as the Southern Pacific Peninsula or just Peninsula, was the common name for commuter rail service between San Jose, California and San Francisco, California on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Potrero Hill

Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Quadruple-track railway

A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks with two tracks used in each direction.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives.

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Railway roundhouse

A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives.

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Railway turntable

In rail terminology, a railway turntable or wheelhouse is a device for turning round railway rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they face the direction they came from.

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Roseville, California

Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area.

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San Bruno Mountain

San Bruno Mountain is a fault-block horst in northern San Mateo County, California; its northern slopes rise in San Francisco.

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San Bruno, California

San Bruno is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, incorporated in 1914.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco 4th and King Street station

San Francisco 4th and King Street station (previously 4th & Townsend), also known as the Caltrain Depot, is a train station in the SoMa district of San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco and San Jose Railroad

The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ) was a railroad which linked the communities of San Francisco and San Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Department of Public Works

San Francisco Public Works (SFPW) is a governmental agency for the City and County of San Francisco in California.

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San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz (Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California.

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Schlage

Schlage is an American lock manufacturer founded in 1920 by Walter Schlage.

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Serpentinite

Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.

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Sierra Point (Brisbane)

Sierra Point is a small artificial peninsula that extends eastward into the San Francisco Bay from the eastern shore of the San Francisco Peninsula, located in Brisbane, San Mateo County, California (although the south part of the business park extends into South San Francisco).

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Third and Townsend Depot

The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century.

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Western Pacific Railroad

The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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See also

Railroad cutoffs

• Atglen and Susquehanna Branch
• Bayshore Cutoff
• Boonton Branch
• Brilliant Branch
• Carbon Cut-Off Railway
• Cedarhurst Cut-off
• Colwich–Stone line
• Contournement Nîmes – Montpellier
• Dalsa Cutoff
• Dumbarton Rail Bridge
• Edgewood Cutoff
• Fayetteville Cutoff
• Fitchburg Cutoff
• Folkston Cutoff
• Freiburg freight bypass railway
• Graham Line
• Gross Cutoff
• Innsbruck bypass
• Karlsruhe freight bypass railway
• Lackawanna Cut-Off
• Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project
• Langport and Castle Cary Railway
• Lucin Cutoff
• Lynndyl Subdivision
• Mainz rail bypass
• Mexia-Nelleva Cutoff
• Montauk Cutoff
• Netcong-Stanhope Cutoff
• New Lower Inn Valley railway
• Nicholson Cutoff
• Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge
• Patterson Creek Cutoff
• Pehlivanköy–Svilengrad railway
• Perry Cutoff
• Port Perry Branch
• Railroad cutoff
• Rockaway Beach Branch
• Stuttgart-Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim railway
• Trenton Cutoff
• Wodonga Rail Bypass

Southern Pacific Railroad lines

• Bayshore Cutoff
• Biola Branch
• Butte County Railroad
• Carson and Colorado Railway
• Coast Line (California)
• Fresno Subdivision
• Iron Horse Regional Trail
• Lucin Cutoff
• Martinez Subdivision
• Monterey Branch Line
• Newberg branch
• Niles Subdivision
• Oakdale Branch
• Ocean View Branch
• Pengra Pass rail route
• Riverdale Branch
• Sacramento Southern Railroad
• Santa Ana Branch
• Santa Monica Air Line
• Santa Paula Branch Line
• Tustin Branch

Transport infrastructure completed in 1907

• Bayshore Cutoff
• Cos Cob Power Station
• Kirkfield Lift Lock
• Meeker Island Lock and Dam

Transportation in San Francisco

• Bay Area Ridge Trail
• Bayshore Cutoff
• Hetch Hetchy Railroad
• Ocean Shore Railroad
• Powered Scooter Share Permit Program
• Public transportation in San Francisco
• SFpark
• San Francisco Bay Trail
• San Francisco Belt Railroad
• San Francisco Cable Car Museum
• San Francisco County Transportation Authority
• San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway
• San Francisco cable car system
• San Francisco congestion pricing
• Skip (transportation company)
• St. Francis (fireboat)
• The Wiggle

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayshore_Cutoff

Also known as Bayshore Roundhouse, Southern Pacific Railroad Bayshore Roundhouse.

, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Department of Public Works, San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Cruz, California, Schlage, Serpentinite, Sierra Point (Brisbane), Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Stanford University, Third and Townsend Depot, Western Pacific Railroad, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.