Southern Pacific Railroad Company's Sacramento Depot, Sacramento California
The Sacramento Southern Pacific terminal was a major transportation center in the west for freight as well as passengers. In 1926, 86 trains passed through the Sacramento station daily, 64 passenger trains and 22 freight trains, on an average of one every fifteen minutes. This level of activity was surpassed only by New York, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, New Orleans, and San Francisco. An average of 4,500 passengers daily passed through Sacramento. In addition, Sacramento was one of the principal railroad equipment-building cities in the United States. By 1926, the Southern Pacific shops in Sacramento had turned out 142 locomotives since the first one, #173 was built in 1872. Every part for trains was manufactured in Sacramento with a workforce of
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