Long Train

Hoppers, food, coal, and tank cars: a diversified load.

In Central California Union Pacific trains are a regular sight. The wait time at crossings has risen due to the increase in freight traffic. City transplants may be irritated, but the railroads were here first.

In the San Francisco Bay Area under- and over-crossings cost in the tens of millions of dollars.

Though the population has grown in Sacramento and surrounds, it will be many years before the crowding and wealth have increased enough to justify bypass construction.