Re: Restaurants in old RR Stations
Author: Dragoman
Date: 06-28-2019 - 18:29
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > If I am not mistaken, the Oakland VS restaurant
> was in a building on the Embarcadero, which had
> been Southern Pacific's Fruitvale Station (and had
> been moved to the present site).
>
> You might be referring to the SP's E Oakland
> station for the red electrics, which was moved
> across the SP mains and I-880. The passenger
> station at Fruitvale was moved, although not very
> far, long before the "RR restaurant" craze took
> hold (and it was substantially altered).
Thank you Dr Zarkoff!
I didn't realize that the Red Car stations had the same size and bay window characteristics as the mainline stations.