The Central Pacific Railroad Depot is a former rail station located in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
on 7th Street west of Broadway. Originally serving as the western terminal of the
San Francisco and Oakland Railroad
The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad (SF&O) was built in 1862 to provide ferry-train service from a San Francisco ferry terminal connecting with railroad service through Oakland to San Antonio. In 1868 Central Pacific Railroad decided that Oaklan ...
, the
Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by Pacific Railroad Acts, U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete the western part of the "First transcontinental railroad" in N ...
chose the line as the final link of their transcontinental route and acquired the line and station in 1869.
Southern Pacific
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the ...
began operating the line in 1885, and most traffic was rerouted to the
16th Street station when that facility opened in 1912. An additional track was added at some point and both electrified for use in the
Key System
The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany, and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area fr ...
. A stop continued to operate out front, but the station building had been converted to the
Mi Rancho Tortilla Factory in 1939. Tracks were removed with the dismantling of the system.
The building was evaluated for inclusion on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1994, however was deemed unlikely to qualify due to changes on the facade.
See also
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Western Pacific Depot
The Western Pacific Depot, also known as 3rd Street station, was a train station in Oakland, California. It opened in 1910 as the western terminus of the Western Pacific Railroad, located on 3rd Street with street running
A street running tra ...
– the 3rd Street Oakland station
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Oakland–Jack London Square station – modern
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
station
References
History of Oakland, California
Railway stations in Oakland, California
Oakland 16th
Repurposed railway stations in the United States
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