Transportation
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On September 6, 1869, the first Transcontinental Railroad train linking two great oceans, consisting of twelve cars and three locomotives, passed here on its way to a wharf terminal west of here, a location now covered by a lagoon used for takeoff by trans-Pacific planes and within the confines of the present U.S. Naval Air Station. The original celebration was held near this spot.
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Alameda, California · United States
