TRANSPORTATION · HISTORICAL MARKER

Lang Southern Pacific Station

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On September 5, 1876, Charles Crocker, President of the Southern Pacific Company, drove a gold spike here to complete his company's San Joaquin Valley Line, the first rail connection of Los Angeles with San Francisco and transcontinental lines.
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