Orange Line (VTA)

Orange Line
A VTA light rail train at Milpitas station
Overview
Locale	Santa Clara County, California Cities: Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, and Milpitas
Termini	Mountain View station Alum Rock station
Stations	26
Service
Type	Light rail
System	VTA light rail
Operator(s)	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Rolling stock	Kinki Sharyo light rail vehicles (low floor)
Technical
Line length	15.8 miles (25.4 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead lines, 750 V DC
Highest elevation	at grade, elevated, underground
Route map Orange Line highlighted in orange Show interactive map Legend Caltrain Mountain View SR 85 Evelyn closed 2015 Whisman Middlefield US 101 Bayshore/NASA Mountain View Sunnyvale Moffett Park Lockheed Martin Borregas Crossman SR 237 Fair Oaks Vienna Reamwood Sunnyvale Santa Clara Old Ironsides Great America Great America (Amtrak/ACE) Lick Mill Santa Clara San Jose Guadalupe River Champion Green Line to Winchester Blue Line to Santa Teresa Baypointe Cisco Way San Jose Milpitas Coyote Creek Alder I-880 Great Mall Milpitas Milpitas San Jose Cropley I-680 Hostetter Berryessa Penitencia Creek McKee Alum Rock Transit Center Story (2029) Eastridge Transit Center (2029) Multiple services sharing track All stations are accessible This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram

The Orange Line is a light rail line in Santa Clara County, California, and part of the VTA light rail system. It serves 26 stations in the cities of Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and San Jose, traveling between Downtown Mountain View and Alum Rock stations, stopping at Ames Research Center, Great America, and Levi's Stadium along the way. The line connects to Caltrain at Mountain View and to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system at Milpitas station. The line runs for 20 hours per day on weekdays, with headways of 15 minutes for most of the day. On weekends, the train runs at 20-minute headways for most of the day. After around 8 pm on weekdays and weekends trains run at 30-minute headways.