This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Tulare Valley Railroad" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(March 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Tulare Valley Railroad
Overview
Headquarters
Corporate at Salt Lake City, Utah
Reporting mark
TVRR
Locale
Tulare County, California
Dates of operation
1992–2008
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Track length
180 miles (290 km)[1]
The Tulare Valley Railroad (/tʊˈlɛəri/ⓘ) (reporting mark TVRR) was operational from December 22, 1992 after acquiring several former Santa Fe Railway branch lines in California's San Joaquin Valley on October 20, 1992. The company was formed by Morris Kulmer & Kern Schumucher (of A&K Railroad Materials) and Michael Van Wagenen of Kyle Railways. A&K Railroad Materials specializes in dismantling railroad lines and selling relay (used) track materials. Kyle Railways operates several shortline railroads throughout the United States.
The TVRR operated 158 miles (254 km) of track from December 1992 to May 1998. The track consisted of the following routes:
Magunden to Arvin, 17 mi (27 km) (Arvin Subdivision)
Oil Jct. to Maltha, 4 mi (6.4 km) (Oil City Subdivision)
Ducor to Cutler, 52 mi (84 km) (Porterville Subdivision)
Corcoran to Calwa, 66 mi (106 km) (Corcoran to Tulare abandon)
Wyeth to Orange Cove and Minkler, 9.4 mi (15.1 km) (Visalia Subdivision)
Hammond to Cameo, 6 mi (9.7 km)
The TVRR later abandoned the following tracks:
Corcoran to Tulare
Visalia to Cutler 14.7 mi (23.7 km)
Wyeth to Orange Cove, 13.3 mi (21.4 km)
Orange Cove to Minkler
In May 1998, most of the remaining track was sold to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad.
The TulareValleyRailroad (/tʊˈlɛəri/ ) (reporting mark TVRR) was operational from December 22, 1992 after acquiring several former Santa Fe Railway branch...
three separate legal entities: the SJVR proper, the TulareValleyRailroad (TVRR), and the Port Railroad. From 1992 to 1997, the SJVR was owned by Kyle Railways...
Company Tecopa Railroad Ten Mile Railroad Terry Lumber Company (Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad) Towle Brothers Company TulareValleyRailroad Union Lumber...
and parts of Madera and Tulare counties, along with a majority of Kern County in Southern California. Although the valley is predominantly rural, it...
American railroads: The Tanana ValleyRailroad, a narrow-gauge railroad in Alaska, operating in the early 20th century The TulareValleyRailroad (its reporting...
surrounding cities to each other and California High-Speed Rail's planned Kings–Tulare Regional Station. The 80-mile (130 km) route is proposed to run east–west...
Salinas, Visalia, Clovis, Santa Maria, Merced, Turlock, Madera, Lodi, Tulare, Porterville, Hanford and Delano. Over time, droughts and wildfires have...
Mariposa, Merced, Sacramento, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare counties. County Route J1 (CR J1) is a county highway in San Benito and...
in two sections: Ojai Valley Trail and Ventura River Trail. Visalia and TulareRailroad abandoned 1900 Visalia Electric Railroad 1904–1992, to SP in 1992...
the railroad commenced in 1910 as the Kings River Railroad. The Kings River Railroad was organized to build from the Santa Fe at Corcoran to Tulare Lake...
resulted in the town's demise. Allensworth is now an unincorporated area in Tulare County. The park has a train station on the San Joaquins line, that is used...
Maddox Overcrossing Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine Tulare County Measure R "Valley Voice Newspaper: Road Projects Abound in Visalia". Archived...
The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt...
branch line between Morris and Elgin passing through Miami to the TulareValleyRailroad, which removed the track for salvage in 2007. The station's windows...
Stanislaus County, California National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California "Twenty Mule Team Museum". Road Trippers. Retrieved February...
Global Information