California Landmark 440: Site of the Alameda Terminal of the First Transcontinental Railroad

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California Historical Landmarks in Alameda County

Landmark 440
Alameda Terminal of the First Transcontinental Railroad
Lincoln Avenue and Webster Street
Alameda
Inaugurated 1869

11 November 2005
(Click Photo To Zoom)

First Transcontinental Railroad

On September 6, 1869, first transcontinental railroad train linking two great oceans and consisting of twelve cars and three locomotives passed here on way to a wharf terminal west of here, a location now covered by lagoon for take-off trans-pacific planes, and within confines present U.S. Naval Air Station. Original celebration held near this spot.

Erected by the California Centennials Commission in cooperation with the Alameda Historical Society
Dedicated 1951

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Where the trains once passed, a service station stands. Not even a rusted track remains. It's not a pretty picture, this corner.

Everything mentioned on the plaque is gone. The wharf terminal? Gone. The lagoon? Gone. The Alameda Naval Air Station and transpacific sea planes like the China Clipper? Gone and gone. Even the transcontinental railroad. Almost gone if the fools in Washington get their way.

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