Freight railroads serviced the Moraga Rancho from 1889 to 1957, and passenger service to Moraga Station began in 1913. In its early days, commuters, high school and St. Mary's College students, and picnickers bound for Madrone and Pinehurst Parks rode the train there. In 1939, the Sacramento Northern Railway provided passenger service across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Chico, a distance of 183 miles, until 1941. Located near Country Club and Viader Drives, the station had a platform matching the height of a mail-coach floor, a waiting room, post office boxes, and an express agency. The yard included a siding to a cattle corral and a packing house, plus a track foreman's home and bunk house. Across the street, the Moraga Barn had a rooming house in back with a kitchen and parlor for 5 track workers. Moraga Station was torn down in late 1957.