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I notice that the list of stations included as rated of "low importance" by the Wiki rail project appear to be all commuter train stations. The 16th Street Station was primarily a regular train station, in fact, it was the principal depot for Oakland serving the Transcontinental Line (The Overland). SP's commuter lines were run to the depot so that commuters could make easy connections with the mainline trains. Tmangray 15:15, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
The platforms are the oldest (and maybe only) such ironwork platforms west of Chicago. They were used by the Berkeley lines of the SP's East Bay Electric Lines until the Bay Bridge opened to rail traffic in 1939. The platforms have been unused since that time. Tmangray 15:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
An easy way to visualize the geographic logic is to note on a map where the old piers (moles) were. The SP mole was located on an alignment with 7th Street in Oakland, while the Key mole was located in alignment with Yerba Buena Avenue (adjacent to 40th Street). You can see from the numbering of the streets that about 35 blocks separated the two alignments. Moreover, the Key was already aligned with the Bay Bridge approach once it was built. Tmangray 15:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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I notice that the list of stations included as rated of "low importance" by the Wiki rail project appear to be all commuter train stations. The 16th Street Station was primarily a regular train station, in fact, it was the principal depot for Oakland serving the Transcontinental Line (The Overland). SP's commuter lines were run to the depot so that commuters could make easy connections with the mainline trains. Tmangray 15:15, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
The platforms are the oldest (and maybe only) such ironwork platforms west of Chicago. They were used by the Berkeley lines of the SP's East Bay Electric Lines until the Bay Bridge opened to rail traffic in 1939. The platforms have been unused since that time. Tmangray 15:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
An easy way to visualize the geographic logic is to note on a map where the old piers (moles) were. The SP mole was located on an alignment with 7th Street in Oakland, while the Key mole was located in alignment with Yerba Buena Avenue (adjacent to 40th Street). You can see from the numbering of the streets that about 35 blocks separated the two alignments. Moreover, the Key was already aligned with the Bay Bridge approach once it was built. Tmangray 15:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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