North of that is the Alameda Creek Regional Trail, running from the Bay to Niles Canyon.

The small, rural town of Sunol located along Niles Canyon is well known for its historic railroad system, on which the tourist railroad Niles Canyon Railway makes an in-town stop and the Altamont Commuter Express passes en route to San Jose and the Central Valley.

* Niles Canyon Road runs westward from Sunol and is a scenic drive to Fremont.

They opened the Essanay-West studio in Niles, California, in 1908, at the foot of Niles Canyon, where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featuring Charlie Chaplin.

* Niles Canyon ghost

The train leaves the Fremont station and turns east-northeast to head towards Niles Canyon.

It then turns north to enter Niles Canyon.

The other rail line in the canyon was the route of the 1869 Sacramento-to-San Francisco Bay extension of the historic First Transcontinental Railroad and is now used by the Niles Canyon Railway.

Many of these were shot in Niles, a small town in Alameda County, California, southeast of San Francisco, where the nearby Western Pacific Railroad route thru Niles Canyon proved to be a very suitable location for the filming of Westerns.

Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek.

The stretch of State Route 84 known as Niles Canyon Road traverses the length of the canyon from the Fremont district of Niles to the unincorporated town of Sunol.

The route of El Camino Viejo came through Niles Canyon.

The former Southern Pacific route from Oakland to Tracy via Niles Canyon is now abandoned, except for the portion from Sunol to Niles Station operated by the heritage railway known as the Niles Canyon Railway.

* Niles Canyon Railway

The new line diverged from the Howard Street " L " station located at the boundary between Chicago and Evanston, ran west into the village of Niles Center ( now Skokie ), continuing to the north-northwest from that point through marshy countryside, paralleling the Skokie branch of the Chicago and North Western Railway.

In 2007 the museum moved its collection of 12 locomotives and over 25 pieces of rolling stock to home of the Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California.

Two railroads also follow the same route down the canyon from Sunol to Niles: the old Southern Pacific track along the north side and the newer Union Pacific ( formerly the Western Pacific ) track a little to the south.

* The train depot where Belushi's character says goodbye to Blair's character, but later gets back on the train is the Michigan Central Railroad Niles Depot in Niles, Michigan about 90 miles east of Chicago.

Chaplin was unimpressed with the conditions there, and after making one film ( His New Job, released 1 February 1915 ), moved to the company's small studio in Niles, California.

This heuristic was also applied to the theory of punctuated equilibrium proposed by Niles Eldredge and Gould.

His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

A year before their 1972 Eldredge and Gould paper, Niles Eldredge published a paper in the journal Evolution which suggested that gradual evolution was seldom seen in the fossil record and argued that Ernst Mayr's standard mechanism of allopatric speciation might suggest a possible resolution.

Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.

Gould's most significant contribution to science was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.

* Fremont, California was formed in 1956 by the combination of the five towns of Centerville, Irvington, Niles, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs, California.

However, the Kalamazoo River, which passes through the modern city of Kalamazoo, was located on the route between Détroit and Fort Saint-Joseph ( nowadays Niles, Michigan ).

Increasing his mystique, not a single word was ever published from Thrawn's point of view, despite Zahn's wide variety of narrators ( Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Karrde, Mara Jade, and even minor characters like General Covell and Niles Ferrier ); instead, he is only observed by other characters, occasionally New Republic personnel but mostly his loyal second-in-command Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

Patchen was born in Niles, Ohio.

Between 1987 and 1991 there were Kenneth Patchen Festivals, celebrating his work, in Warren, Ohio, which encompasses the town of Niles where Patchen was born and grew up.

In honor of Patchen, the town of Niles also renamed the little street where he was born to " Patchen Avenue.

In his role as presidential advisor, perhaps his most significant contribution was his successful advocacy, along with David Niles, of prompt 1948 recognition of the new state of Israel, over the strong objections of Secretary of State, General George Marshall.

Berrien County's boundaries were set off by an act of the legislature of the Michigan Territory on October 29, 1829, with its present limits, but it was initially attached as Niles Township to Cass County for administrative purposes.

The county was initially divided into three townships: Berrien Township, consisting of present-day townships of Berrien, Oronoko, and Lake plus a two-mile strip north of that territory ; St. Joseph Township, consisting of everything north of Berrien Township ; and Niles Township, consisting of everything south of Berrien Township.

In 1972, the notion of gradualism in evolution was challenged by a theory of " punctuated equilibrium " put forward by Gould and Niles Eldredge, proposing evolutionary changes could occur in relatively rapid spurts, when selective pressures were heightened, punctuating long periods of morphological stability, as well-adapted organisms coped successfully in their respective environments.

Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott and Costello's mishaps ( and often fuming in character as Costello routinely insulted his on-air wife ).

Niles was succeeded by Michael Roy, with announcing chores also handled over the years by Frank Bingman and Jim Doyle.

Davis ' natural accent is Southern American ; however his English accent as Niles convinced many viewers that Davis was actually English.

The first settler in the township was James Kirk, who moved with his family to Niles, Michigan in 1833 and then established a residence in Pipestone in April, 1837.

The village was platted in the 1840s by Thomas Stevens, who was a prominent banker from Niles, Michigan, and owned a large tract of land in the area.

Elijah Goble built a tavern in 1837 and it was an important stop on the stage coach line between Kalamazoo and Niles in the early 1840s.

This mansion was built in 1867 by Niles Rice and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.