The first Ocean Shore Railroad passenger train from San Francisco to Granada arrived on 21 June 1908, carrying 500 San Franciscans who were treated to free picnic lunches and sales pitches for building lots. The main Granada station stood just a few hundred feet oceanward. Granada, designed by Daniel H. Burnham, architect of the 1905 San Francisco plan, featured curved streets lined with concrete sidewalks and new eucalyptus trees. When the last train whistle blew on 16 August 1920, only a few homes had been built along Burnham's boulevards. The Ocean Shore Railroad never reached Santa Cruz nonstop, its intended destination, because the tracks ended at Tunitas Creek south of Half Moon Bay, where passengers transferred to Stanley Steamers to Swanton and then boarded another Ocean Shore train to Santa Cruz. Though its motto was "Reaches the Beaches," the railroad was continually plagued by landslides along its ocean-bluffs route and finally yielded to the automobile. During its 12 years of operation, it left a definite mark on the rugged San Mateo County Coast.