Tracy station (Southern Pacific Railroad)
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Tracy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Tracy Depot shown on a postcard, c. 1901–1907 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Tracy, California | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1878 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | April 30, 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1903 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tracy was a railway station in Tracy, California. When Southern Pacific built their new railway line around Suisun Bay in September 1878, the connection was made at a point three miles east of Ellis – the junction and town built around it were named Tracy.[1][2] The West Side Line was built from here, with service starting in 1892.[3] Southern Pacific moved their operational headquarters to Tracy from Lathrop in 1894.[4]
A new station building was constructed on the site in 1903.[5] The first station building was moved to C and 4th Streets, and eventually torn down.[6]
The Sacramento Daylight was truncated here after about 1970, where passengers could catch the connecting San Joaquin Daylight to continue to Los Angeles.[7] Passenger service ended on April 30, 1971.[8]
