Collinsville, California

Collinsville is a rural unincorporated community in Solano County, California, United States.

[1] Collinsville is effectively separated from the more intense urban development in Contra Costa County immediately across the river, as no bridge exists connecting the two areas.

He tried to sell pieces of the land to people on the East Coast telling them that it was going to be a big railroad town.

[3] At one point, one of the passenger railroad lines between Sacramento and San Francisco passed through Collinsville (before the bridges were built).

The train would unbuckle at Collinsville, and be pulled across the Delta by barge (requiring several trips), and then be rebuckled together on the other side at the foot of Railroad Avenue in Pittsburg, and resume its trip to San Francisco.