By Allen Pierleoni, Comstock’s; April 30, 2019
Without it — and the 200,000-plus miles of track that followed because of it — he wouldn’t be commuting to work by train.
Callison drives from his Lincoln home at 6:40 a.m. to catch the 7:02 a.m. train from Roseville Station, which delivers him to Sacramento Valley Station on I Street 22 minutes later. From there, he walks the mile-and-a-half to his job as assistant director of communications for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. On rainy days, he leaves Sacramento Valley Station and boards a nearby light rail train that drops him a block from his office.