List of California street railroads

The following street, interurban, or other electric railways operated in California.

East Bay

Alameda, Oakland and Piedmont Railroad
Broadway, Berkeley and Piedmont Street Railroad
Brooklyn and Fruitvale Railroad
Claremont University and Ferris Street Railway
Highland Park and Fruitvale Railway
Interurban Electric Railway
Key System
Oakland and Berkeley Rapid Transit Company
Oakland, Brooklyn and Fruitvale Railroad
San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Consolidated Railway
Alameda County Terminal Railway from part of the Alameda County Railway
East Shore and Suburban Railway
Oakland Traction Company 1906–1912
*Berkeley Traction Company
*Oakland Traction Consolidated 1904–1906
**Oakland Transit Consolidated 1902–1904
***Oakland Transit Company 1901
****California Railway 1890–1901
*****Alameda and Oakland Horsecar Railroad 1870–1892
*****Oakland, Alameda and Laundry Farm Railroad 1888–1890
******Alameda County Railway
****Central Avenue Railway 1892–1898 narrow gauge Oakland
*****Central Avenue Railroad 1889–1892 narrow gauge proposed cable
****Oakland Consolidated Street Railway
****Central Avenue Railway
****Piedmont and Mountain View Railway
*****Piedmont Cable Company
******Broadway and Piedmont Railroad
******Fourteenth Street Railroad
****East Oakland Street Railway
****Highland Park and Fruitvale Railroad
****Oakland Railroad Company
*****Oakland Cable Railway
******San Pablo Railroad
***Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway Consolidated
****Oakland, San Leandro and Haywards Electric Railway
****Twenty-Third Avenue Electric Railway
**Webster Street and Park Railway/Webster and Lake Park Railroad
Shipyard Railway

Los Angeles–San Bernardino

Alhambra and Pasadena Street Railway
Anaheim Street Railway
Central and Boyle Heights Railroad
City Railway (Pasadena)
City Railway (San Bernardino)
Colorado Street Railway
Colton and San Bernardino Railway
Highland Railroad
Lake Shore Electric Railway
Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway
*Consolidated Electric Railway
*Depot Railway of Los Angeles
*Electric Rapid Transit Company
**Los Angeles Electric Railway
*Los Angeles Cable Railway
*Los Angeles and Vernon Street Railway
*Mateo Street and Santa Fe Avenue Street Car Company
Main Street and Agricultural Park Railroad
Monrovia Street Railway
Orange Grove Street Railroad
Pacific Railway
Pasadena Street Railroad
Riverside and Arlington Street Railway
San Antonio and Holt Avenue Railroad
San Bernardino, Arrowhead and Waterman Railway
Santa Ana, Orange and Tustin Street Railway
Second Street Cable Railroad
Southern California Motor Road Company
Temple Street Cable Railway
West Pasadena Railway
Los Angeles Railway narrow gauge
*Central Railroad (of California)
**City Railroad
***Central and Boyle Heights Railroad Horsecar narrow gauge 1885
**Spring and West Sixth Street Railroad 1874–1884 Horsecar narrow gauge
*Los Angeles and Redondo Railway
**Redondo Railway Company
***Rosecrans Railroad Company
Pacific Electric Railway
*Brooklyn Avenue Railway
*East Ninth Street Railway
*Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway
**California Pacific Railway narrow gauge 1899–1901 PE's Torrance Line
**Los Angeles Traction
**Los Angeles and Glendale Railway
**California Pacific Railway
***Santa Ana and Orange Motor Railway
***San Gabriel Rapid Transit Railway
*Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway/Los Angeles and Pasadena Railway
**Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway
***West Pasadena Railway 1887–1894
****Colorado Street Railway
*Los Angeles and Redondo Railway
**Redondo Railway
**Redondo and Hermosa Beach Railroad
*Los Angeles Pacific Railway
**Pasadena and Pacific Railway Company of California
***Los Angeles County Railroad
***Ostrich Farm Railway
*Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railway
*Pacific Electric Railway Company of Arizona
*Pasadena and Mount Lowe Railway/Mount Lowe Railway
**Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway
*Redlands Central Railway
*Riverside and Arlington Railway
*San Bernardino Interurban Railway
*San Bernardino Valley Traction Company
**Redlands Street Railway
**San Bernardino and Highlands Electric Railway
*Santa Ana and Orange Railway
*Temple Street Cable Railway/Temple Street Railway narrow gauge 1885–1902
*Terracina and Redlands Street Railway narrow gauge Mule Power 1892–1895 Property Sold to PE

Sacramento Valley

Sacramento Northern Railway 1925–1983
*Sacramento Northern Railroad 1918–1925 Purchased by WP in 1921.
**Northern Electric Railway 1907–1918 Name changed to SN in 1918.
***Northern Electric Company 1905–1907
****Chico Electric Railway 1904–1905
****Marysville and Yuba City Street Railway 1889–1906
***Shasta Southern Railway 1905–1907
***Vallejo and Northern Railroad 1910–1912
****Vallejo and Northern Railway 1909–1910
**Sacramento Terminal Company 1908–1918
**Northern Electric Railway—Marysville and Colusa Branch 1910–1918
**Sacramento and Woodland Railroad 1911–1918
*San Francisco–Sacramento Railroad 1920–1928
**Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway 1911–1920
***Sacramento Valley West Side Electric Railway 1915–1917 Dixon
***Oakland and Antioch Railway 1909–1911
**West Side Railroad 1911–1921 proposed to build to Rio Vista
Woodland Street Railway

San Diego

Coronado Railroad
Electric Rapid Transit Street Car Company
Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway
National City Street Car Company
San Diego Cable Railway
San Diego Electric Railway
San Diego Street Car Company
San Diego Street Railway
San Diego and Old Town Street Railway
San Diego, Old Town and Pacific Beach Railroad
San Diego and Pacific Beach Railway
San Diego, Pacific Beach and La Jolla Railway

San Jose

Interurban Railways

Peninsular Railway Company
*Peninsular Railroad
*San Jose-Los Gatos Interurban Railway Company
*Santa Clara Interurban Railroad

Streetcar Companies

San Jose Railroads
*San Jose and Santa Clara County Railway
**Alum Rock Railway Company
***San Jose and Alum Rock Park Motor Company
**First Street and San Pedro Street Railroad
**First Street and Willow Glen Railroad
**North Side Horse Railroad
**People's Railroad
**South East Side Horse Railroad Company
*San Jose Railway Company
**San Jose Railroad Company
**Willow Glen Railroad Company

Other cities and towns

;Bakersfield

Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway

;Eureka

Eureka Street Railroad

;Fresno

;North Bay Area

San Francisco and Napa Valley Railroad abandoned, in phases during period 1938–1956
*San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway 1911–1936 electric interurban Napa city to Calistoga.
**San Francisco, Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad 1906–1911
***Vallejo, Benicia and Napa Valley Railroad 1902–1910
Santa Rosa Railroad 1903–1923
*Santa Rosa Street Railway
**Union Street Railway narrow gauge 1893–1897
***South Side Street Railway/South Side Railway narrow gauge Horsecar 1888–1893

;Paso Robles

Paso Robles Street Railway

;Sacramento

;San Luis Obispo

San Luis Street Railway
San Luis Obispo Street Railway

;Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Street Railroad
Santa Barbara and Citizens' Street Railroad

;Santa Cruz County

;Stockton

Stockton Electric Motor Railway
California Midland Railroad (of 1905) Marysville
California Terminal Company 1911
*Lakeport and Richardson's Bay Railroad
Central California Traction Route downtown Sacramento to Stockton and competed directly with SP and WP between the two cities. Later owned by WP. Converted to diesel. Currently an active Class III freight railroad. Trackage in rural Sacramento County in year 1995 was in nearly inoperable condition. Electric interurban operation ended in 1933.
Stockton Electric Railroad 1881/1891–1905
*Stockton Street Railway 1874–1881/1891 horsecar
Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad now a freight railroad, 1908–present
Tidewater Southern Railway Stockton to Modesto. Later owned by WP and electric operation converted to diesel. Still active trackage.
*Tidewater and Southern Transit Company 1912
**Tidewater and Southern Railroad 1910–1912

;Various

Glendale and Montrose Railway
Holton Interurban Railway later SP
Modesto Interurban Railway 1909–1911 later MET
Monterey, Fresno and Eastern Railroad
Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway abandoned 1930
*Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway 1896–1913
Nevada County Traction Company
Orange Grove Street Railway 1888–1896
Second Street Railroad narrow gauge horsecar Pomona
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
*West Sacramento Electric Company 1914
Second Street Cable Railway closed in 1890
Shasta Springs Scenic Railroad 1888 cable
Sierra Madre Street Railway 1887–1890/1891 narrow gauge Mule car Los Angeles
South Beach and Mission Railway c. 1862 San Francisco
Southern California Motor Road Company narrow gauge 1886–1892 leased to SP San Bernardino-Colton
Southern California Rapid Transit District Metro Rail 1975–1986 now part of Los Angeles Metro Rail
Tuscan Mineral Springs Corporation Electric Railway 1903–? Red Bluff–Tuscan Springs
Ventura and Ojai Valley Railroad 1887 - connected to SP coastal line and owned by SP soon afterwards. Abandoned and railbanked in two sections: Ojai Valley Trail and Ventura River Trail.
Visalia and Tulare Railroad abandoned 1900
Visalia Electric Railroad 1904–1992, to SP in 1992.
*Chowchilla Pacific Railway
Volcano Northern Railroad 1903
Visalia Rail Road to SP in 1899
West Coast Land Company aka San Luis Street Railway narrow gauge horsecar 1890–1906
*San Luis Obispo Street Railway

Proposed lines

Bakersfield and Ventura Railway Electric 1902
Bay and Coast Railway 1899 narrow gauge Electric & Common Carrier
Bay Counties Electric Railroad 1905–1907
Bay Counties Power Company Electric 1902
Benicia Land and Terminal Railway 1914 Electric
Big Four Electric Railway 1912–1914
California Electric Railway 1909
California Pacific Railroad (of 1901) Los Angeles–San Pedro
California Rapid Transit Railroad 1907 San Francisco–San Jose–Monterey & San Jose–Martinez
California Terminal Railway 1914–1915/1916 San Francisco-Marin/Sonoma/Napa/Yolo/Sacramento Counties
Sausalito Incline Street Railway 1914 Cable/Electric Sausalito
Scotts Creek Railway 1908 Santa Cruz County
Sierra County Railroad 1911 Sacramento–Sierra
Sonoma and Lake County Electric Railway Lakeport–Cloverdale 1907
Sonoma and Lake County Railroad (of 1907) Lakeport–Cloverdale
Highland Pacific Railroad 1909
*Sonoma and Lake County Railway 1909 Lakeport–Cloverdale–Preston
Southern California Beach Railway 1912–1914 Colton–San Diego
Stockton and Bay City Short Line Railroad 1911–1912 Stockton–Byron–Antioch–Oakland
Stockton and Lodi Terminal Railroad 1895 Stockton–Lodi
Tidewater Northern Railway 1909–1910 Santa Monica–Ventura
Tulare County Power Company 1911–1912
Turlock Traction Company 1911 Turlock–Denair
Union Belt Railway 1906 Sacramento
University Heights Motor Road 1886–1888 San Diego
Vallejo Traction Company 1910 Vallejo
Valley Railroad 1912 Red Bluff–Woodland–Davis–Dixon to connect with Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway
Ventura Terminal Railway 1907/1908
Yosemite Park Electric Railway 1904
Yucaipa and Oak Glen Railroad 1908 Standard or narrow gauge Electric Yucaipa–Redlands