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Up through the late 1980s, Union Pacific ran freight trains up the middle of Main Street in Chico, California, then in a park strip alongside the Esplanade to reach private right of way to the Chico Industrial Park. The track was inherited from the Sacramento Northern, an interurban electric streetcar line that ran about 180 miles from Chico to Oakland (and for a few months in the thirties across the Oakland Bay Bridge into San Francisco); it crossed the Sacramento river on its own ferry near the present streetcar museum at Rio Vista. The museum uses a remnant of the SN track.
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