2/12/2010

8/11/2024

Landmark information

  • Location:
    NW corner of Lincoln Ave and Webster St, Alameda
  • Plaque:
    Official State Plaque
  • Site:
    Nothing remains
  • Date First Visited:
    12/22/2022
  • Date Most Recently Visited:
    8/11/2024
  • GPS Coordinates:
    N 37 46.515, W 122 16.616

About this landmark

Plaque text:

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.