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San Francisco 4th and King Street station (previously 4th & Townsend), also known as the Caltrain Depot, is a train station in the SoMa district of San Francisco, California. It is presently the northern terminus of the Caltrain commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley .
Opened in 1910 by the Western Pacific Railroad as part of the Feather River Route, the station would go on to serve the original California Zephyr until the service was discontinued in 1970. [2] The Old Spaghetti Factory opened in the old building in 1978. The station building was designed by Willis Polk in the Mission Revival style. [3]
The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century. The station at Third Street and Townsend Street served as the northern terminus for Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line between San Francisco and San Jose (forerunner of Caltrain) and long-distance trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles via ...
The City of San Francisco train sets were jointly owned by the C&NW, UP and SP with the exception of the sleepers which were Pullman-owned until 1945 when two of those cars were acquired by the C&NW and a dozen by the UP. [24] [25] [26] The new train was capable of speeds up to 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) and accommodated 222 passengers. [27]
Works of public art included at several stations were developed as part of the RT Public Art Program, and represent an array of media including, mosaics, sculptures, metalwork and murals. Each was commissioned to incorporate an identity and sense of place unique to the neighborhood surrounding the station. [7]
San Francisco: Existing, train station and connecting tunnel unfunded postponed Caltrain: AC Transit, Amtrak Thruway, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, Paratransit Service, Muni, Chariot Transit, SamTrans, WestCAT Lynx: San Francisco–4th and King Street (temporary until Salesforce Transit Center opens to trains); see the latest information
This organization worked for years to promote the idea of a railroad museum, donating 30 historic locomotives and cars to the California Department of Parks and Recreation to be the nucleus of a State-operated museum in Sacramento. The museum's first facility, the Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, opened in 1976. The Railroad History ...