In 1863, the recently formed San Francisco and San Jose Railroad began passenger service between San Francisco and Mayfield, and a year later extended the service all the way to San Jose.
Two daily passenger trains and one daily freight train ran in each direction on the original schedule.
More than a century and a half later, Caltrain is converting from a diesel to an electric-powered railroad — an idea originally considered and then abandoned after World War I by the Southern Pacific Railroad,…
