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Traffic is heavy weekdays on Marin Avenue from the Berkeley hills through Albany. But imagine if you had to wait behind the crossing signal while a freight train passed. Motorists had to do just that until May 1979, when the Santa Fe Railroad abandoned its inland right-of-way from Oakland to Richmond. [www.ibabuzz.com]

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Color postcard of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway station for Oakland, California, circa 1915. The station, opened in 1904 and demolished in 1963, stood at 40th Street and San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. An addition was added in 1945. In 1958, the three remaining trains were cut back to Richmond, but connecting buses served the station until it was demolished. The postcard shows the Santa Fe's commitment to landscape planning for its station grounds in the early years of the 20th century. [railroadheritage.org]