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Central California Traction T <br /> Page ] of 3 <br /> snow <br /> rta Train <br /> RAILWAY <br /> r >; s <br /> BYLINES Railroad Search Engine <br /> Central io� t - • <br /> ray <br /> lel o lZ <br /> 'Phis i_� all C'rtofficial.Site andis rrnt ill (711.1, way" if hiliv r-elwcd ro the CCT <br /> Return Visitors! Click Here to see what is new since your last visit. <br /> HOT NEVUS! CCT 1174 is now re-painted and re-numbered as CCT 1502. Click here to see her <br /> Brief History of the Central California Traction <br /> Incorporated on August 7, 1905, the Central California Traction Company was <br /> MH originally conceived as a second streetcar line for the citizens of Stockton as an <br /> T RAalternative to the Stockton Electric Railroad. September 1, 1907 saw the beginning of <br /> TION <br /> electric passenger train service between Stockton and Lodi, in direct competition with <br /> Southern Pacific Railroad. By August 1910, the line had reached Sacramento and <br /> passenger trains began through service. Almost immediately came freight service as <br /> well. CCT's freight operations carried merchandise, livestock and produce (primarily <br /> grapes, strawberries and sugar beets). At its Peak, CCT was operating 36 passenger <br /> trains a day, over and above its freight operations. <br /> Because of CCT's interurban style of operations, CCT used overhead wires in the cities of Stockton, Lodi <br /> and Sacramento, but power between the cities was fed by a covered third rail that was energized at 1200 <br /> volts DC, CCT was one of the first railroads to use the high tension DC power in the United States. Power <br /> in the cities was still at 600 volts by catenary. <br /> CCT underwent a management change 1928 when CCT's owning family tried to sell the company to the <br /> Southern Pacific. What followed was a struggle for control between the WP, ATSF, and SP Railroads. <br /> Ultimately in 1936, the ICC decided that the three railroads would share the CCT. While the struggle for <br /> control raged, CCT fell to the economic climate of the times and on February 4, 1933, CCT's last <br /> interurban passenger train made its final run. CCT's freight operations continued under electricity, but <br /> demands on power created service problems and in 1946 made the switch from electricity to diesel with <br /> the arrival of a pair of OE 44-tonners. On December 24, 1947, the CCT dropped their pantographs for the <br /> last time... the CCT was dieselized. <br /> a!i T 8fa•. <br /> The Central California Traction Today <br /> http://www.trainweb.org/tractionco/ 9/6/2005 <br />