SACRAMENTO

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LIGHT RAIL ROUTES

Operator: Sacramento Regional Transit District

B	Blue Line	Watt/I-80 – Marconi Arcade – Downtown – Sacramento City College – Meadowview
G	Gold Line	Sacramento Valley Rail Station – Downtown – College Greens – Rancho Cordova – Sunrise – Folsom

Note: Route designations by letter are not used by the operator.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Light rail lines: 60 km.



HISTORY

• Horse-trams: 20 Aug. 1870 - 1891 (?)
• Battery-operated trams: 1888
• Streetcars: 1891 - 4 Jan. 1947
• Light rail: 12 March 1987 - today.

GAUGE

• Light rail: 1435 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Taplin, M.R. "The Sacramento Light Rail story", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit, Nov. 1987 (50:599), p.376-381.

WIKIS

• Blue Line (Sacramento RT) [En]
• Gold Line (Sacramento RT) [En]
• Sacramento Regional Transit District [En]

WEB SITES

• Sacramento Regional Transit [En]

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