Please answer the following question: Information: - San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. - The standard gauge (also Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, International gauge, or normal gauge) is a widely used railway track gauge. Approximately 55% of the lines in the world are this gauge. All high-speed rail lines (except those in Russia, Uzbekistan, and Finland) are standard gauge. The distance between the inside edges of the rails is defined to be (except in the United States, where it is still defined in Imperial and US customary units as ). It is also called the UIC gauge or UIC track gauge, the European gauge in the EU and Russia, or uniform gauge in Queensland, Australia. - The Petaluma River is a river in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin that becomes a tidal slough for the majority of its length. The headwaters are in the area southwest of Cotati. The flow is generally southward through Petaluma's old town, where the waterway becomes navigable, and then flows another through tidal marshes before emptying into the northwest corner of San Pablo Bay. - California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. - High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks. While there is no single standard that applies worldwide, new lines in excess of and existing lines in excess of are widely considered to be high-speed, with some extending the definition to include lower speeds in areas for which these speeds still represent significant improvements. The first such system began operations in Japan in 1964 and was widely known as the bullet train. High-speed trains normally operate on standard gauge tracks of continuously welded rail on grade-separated right-of-way that incorporates a large turning radius in its design. - In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails. - A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species. Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. - The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California. Its main line is long and runs between Schellville and Eureka. An additional portion of the line runs from the Ignacio Wye to the edge of San Rafael. Currently, only the stretch between Schellville and Windsor is in operation with freight and SMART commuter trains. - George Stephenson (9 June 1781 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of , sometimes called "Stephenson gauge", is the standard gauge by name and by convention for most of the world's railways. - San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad ( SF&NP ) provided the first extensive standard gauge rail service to Sonoma County and became the southern end of the regional Northwestern Pacific Railroad . Sonoma County 's first standard - gauge railroad was the 1 - mile ( 1.6 - km ) Petaluma and Haystack Railroad connecting the city of Petaluma with ferry service to San Francisco from Haystack Landing on the Petaluma River in 1864 . Petaluma and Haystack coaches were pulled by horses after the locomotive exploded on 27 August 1866 . SF&NP began construction from Petaluma northward in 1869 , but inability to make satisfactory arrangements with the City of Petaluma caused the railroad to establish a new southern ferry terminus on the Petaluma River at Donahue Landing . Service was extended north to Santa Rosa in 1870 , and Cloverdale in 1872 . The Fulton and Guerneville Railroad was formed in 1874 to build a SF&NP branch from Fulton to Guerneville on the Russian River . The branch was completed in 1877 . In 1879 , the SF&NP was extended south through Petaluma to San Rafael in Marin County . The San Francisco and San Rafael Railroad was formed in 1882 to extend the SF&NP south another 3 miles ( 5 km ) to a new ferry landing in Tiburon . SF&NP ferry terminal facilities were moved to Tiburon in 1884 ; and Donahue Landing faded into the rural countryside . The Cloverdale and Ukiah Railroad was formed in 1886 to extend the SF&NP north to Ukiah in Mendocino County . Service began to Ukiah in 1889 . The Santa Rosa , Sebastopol and Green Valley Railroad was formed in 1889 to build a SF&NP branch from Santa Rosa to Sebastopol . The branch was completed in 1890 . The California Northwestern Railway Company was formed in 1898 as part of Southern Pacific Railroad ambitions to reach the redwood lumber mills around Humboldt Bay . SF&NP struggled through the panic of 1893 , and was leased by the California Northwestern in 1898 . California Northwestern oversaw eastward connections to the Southern Pacific Railroad and northward... - In the United States, a regional railroad is a railroad company that is not Class I, but still has a substantial amount of traffic or trackage (and is thus not a short line). The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has defined the lower bound as of track or $40 million in annual operating revenue. (The Class I threshold is $250 million, adjusted for inflation since 1991.) - A tidal marsh is a type of marsh that is found along coasts and estuaries of which the flooding characteristics are determined by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary, sea or ocean. According to the salinity of the flooding water, freshwater, brackish and saline tidal marshes are distinguished. Respectively, they may be classified into coastal marshes and estuarine marshes. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'san francisco and north pacific railroad'. Choices: - 12 - area - bay - bearing - city - class - company - country - design - distance - estuary - extension - grade - june - los angeles - marsh - ocean - old town - plant - radius - railway line - regional railroad - river - rolling stock - species - standard - state - town - track - track gauge - train - transport - water - waterway - wetland
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railway line