AKA: Central Pacific Railroad, Train Station, Sacramento, CA

Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - railroad stations

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1867

west side of Front Street between I and J streets
Sacramento, CA

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The Central Pacific Sacramento Depot's first section measured seventy-five feet wide by two hundred feet long;

According to the California State Railroad Museum, was the "western terminus of America's first transcontinental railroad;" reconstructed in 1976 as the first part of the California State Railroad Museum complex;

A one story frame building was first built in 1867; in October 1868, an open shed thirty by seventy five feet was added to the north end of the passenger depot; in February 1870, a small refreshment stand [the Silver Palace Eating Stand] was built, and in July of that year, offices for the Assistant and Division Superintendants and a telegraph office were constructed; a women's waiting room was created from existing apartment space; several roof fires plagued the terminal between 1870-1873, none serious; in 1873, the railroad erected a baggage room at the north end of the depot;

PCAD id: 787