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81-640: Santa Fe Depot is a union station in San Diego, California , built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the small Victorian -style structure erected in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company. The Spanish Colonial Revival style station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a San Diego Historic Landmark . Its architecture, particularly

162-664: A hostler moving an engine to an ash pit to remove the detritus of burned wood or coal. The locomotive's tender would be refilled with fuel, water, and sand, and the engine would be placed above an inspection pit so that workers could inspect it for any maintenance needs, like wear on its brake shoes and wheels. The engine's many moving parts would also be thoroughly lubricated, although this meant that engines typically required frequent cleanings to remove old lubricating fluid along with dirt and anything else that stuck. At larger 24-hour North American roundhouses, steam locomotives would often be turned around and made ready for service within

243-525: A decade-high 777,961 boardings in 2017 (see List of busiest Amtrak stations ). Daily freight trains, operated by BNSF , also run through the station, often at night when there are fewer passenger trains. The BNSF freight yard in San Diego is about two miles (3.2 km) further south, near Petco Park and adjacent to 12th & Imperial Transit Center and Naval Base San Diego . The depot has six tracks. The two eastern tracks handle trolley service, while

324-453: A few hours of arrival. However, locomotives with major issues or in need of semi-regular maintenance required additional time. Larger roundhouses were adequately staffed with boilermakers , blacksmiths , and pipefitters so that this work could be accomplished on-site; only the most extensive work, such as major unexpected repairs or scheduled major maintenance, required the transport of locomotives to specialized backshops . The location of

405-750: A few private and third-sector railways. One Japanese roundhouse that remains intact is at the Kyoto Railway Museum . The museum comprises a number of structures classified by the Japanese Government as ' Important Cultural Properties '. One of these structures is the museum roundhouse, the oldest reinforced concrete car shed extant in Japan. The museum roundhouse in Wolsztyn , in western Poland, continued to supply steam locomotives for regular national rail services as of 2011. The Roundhouse at Entroncamento

486-775: A locomotive servicing facility by the same railroad that constructed it is the Long Island engine house in Queens , New York . The largest surviving roundhouse by interior square footage is owned and operated by the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer , North Carolina . It was built by the Southern Railway in 1924 and contains 37 stalls. The B&O Railroad Museum complex in Baltimore, Maryland contains

567-593: A modern light rail version of the San Diego Electric Railway Association (SDERy) streetcar service, commenced operations on July 26, 1981, with its northern terminus at the station. Relocation of the Santa Fe mainline between the depot and Old Town San Diego in 1991 allowed for an extension of the Trolley to Mission Valley . The Trolley has continued to expand since that time. The Trolley portion of

648-769: A museum. The German Museum of Technology shows a doubled roundhouse. The former Budapest North Depot in Budapest is home to a railway museum since 2000. At its height, there were four railway roundhouses in Indonesia; three of which survive: the roundhouse near Lempuyangan station in Yogyakarta , the one in Tebing Tinggi station in North Sumatera , and a former roundhouse inside Jatibarang sugar mill in Central Java which

729-675: A pair of emerging technology companies. The Canadian National Railways roundhouse at the Turcot Yard in Montreal, built in 1906, was the largest ever built in Canada. Its demolition in 1962 to make way for the Turcot Interchange illustrated a profound change in transportation habits across North America. The Steam Whistle Brewing brewery in Toronto , Ontario is located in the building known as

810-413: A private workshop, may previously have been laid out in a radial pattern like a roundhouse. The Roundhouse , Chalk Farm , London was built in 1847, but was too small for its function within 20 years; it is now an arts center and concert venue. Barrow Hill Engine Shed , which is home to a number of preserved locomotives is still in use. It is estimated that there were about 3,000 roundhouse sites in

891-586: A roundhouse at Mercer . Norway has had many roundhouses, and many still survive. Examples include Voss, Ål, Kongsberg on the Bergen line. Hamar, Otta and Oppdal on the Dovre line, Lodalen - Oslo (covered) and Egersund on the Sørland line. A roundhouse is known to exist at Manpo -Jian. Roundhouses were a significant feature of Japanese railways . Many smaller roundhouses are still in use today as fully operational buildings on

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972-649: A significant foothold in Texas by the mid-1880s but construction difficulties delayed westward progress until American financier Jay Gould acquired an interest in the railroad in 1879. The T&P never reached San Diego but instead met the Southern Pacific at Sierra Blanca , Texas , in 1881. In the wake of this setback, the Santa Fe was approached by the Citizens Railroad Committee of San Diego, who had formed

1053-547: A significant increase in rail traffic to and from San Diego, both in the form of troop movements and transport of military vehicles and supplies. While freight shipments dropped precipitously after the War, passenger demand remained high, and traffic on the "Surf Line" ran second only to the Pennsylvania Railroad 's New York – Philadelphia corridor. Passenger service on the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (a successor to

1134-471: A special term like union station is usually not used. The stations are generally owned and operated by DB Station&Service . As another example, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof , the main station of Leipzig , originally consisted of side-by-side parts that were used by the Prussian and Saxonian Railways until the federal Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, but were essentially two stations operated separately by

1215-692: A syndicate for the purpose of building a rail line to connect with the A&;P in eastern California. Santa Fe provided financial assistance to the group, which also founded the California Southern Railroad Company (CSRR) on October 23, 1880. A roundhouse , workshops, and classification yards were built in National City , a suburb of San Diego. A wharf was also constructed to accommodate ship traffic. Initial plans were made to construct 18 miles (29 km) of main line track extending north from

1296-439: A unified paid area , where ticket gates are shared between all operators serving the station, or separate paid areas, where different operators have individual paid areas, thus requiring commuters to exit a paid area and then enter another to transfer between different operators. In North America , a union station is usually owned by a separate corporation whose shares are owned by the different railways which use it, so that

1377-543: Is believed to have been the Boston and Maine's East Somerville roundhouse outside Boston, today the site of the Boston Engine Terminal . It was built with stalls 112 feet (34.1 m) long, 90 feet (27 m) of open space between the roundhouse and the turntable, and a 110-foot (33.5 m) turntable, giving it a diameter of 525 feet (160 m). However, several roundhouses were enlarged over time to become larger than

1458-796: Is home to the Portuguese National Railway Museum . The Uster roundhouse in Uster . Changhua Roundhouse in Changhua City built in 1922 is the only surviving roundhouse in Taiwan and is still in use as of 2022. Probably the first railway roundhouse, designed by Robert Stephenson , was built in 1837 in Birmingham , at Curzon Street station . Its central turntable, inspection pits, and an exterior wall were uncovered in March 2020 during work to build

1539-456: Is not as familiar or as well understood as "union station" is in the United States. In Japan, such a railway station is referred to as a joint-use station ( 共同使用駅 , Kyōdō shiyō-eki ) . At railway junctions where two or more railway lines operated by different companies meet, the companies may reach an agreement to entrust one of the companies to manage the entire station, resulting in

1620-650: Is now used as a mini railway museum. There are two roundhouses at Turin , still in use by the FS. There is one in Rome. There were three roundhouses in New Zealand. Elmer Lane in Greymouth was one of the largest and most famous roundhouses in New Zealand and had up to 17 total berths. The last remains were demolished in the 1990's. None of the original roundhouses survive however Mainline Steam as part of their Mercer project will build

1701-668: The Cajon Pass to Barstow . Santa Fe completed the "Surf Line" run between Los Angeles and San Diego under the auspices of its subsidiary, the Southern California Railway (a different subsidiary from the California Southern), on August 12, 1888. The route was initially referred to as the Los Angeles—San Diego "Short Line" as it replaced the circuitous inland route through Temecula Canyon . A real estate boom in

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1782-662: The Fukuoka City Subway 's Kūkō Line . Joint-use stations may also be built at places where railway lines operated by different companies share the same tracks, as is the case from Meguro Station to Shirokane-Takanawa Station in Tokyo , which is shared between the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line and the Toei Mita Line . Depending on the extent of agreements reached by the different operators, joint-use stations may feature

1863-541: The HS2 line. Another was built in 1839 at Derby , England by the North Midland Railway . A guidebook of the time says: The engine-house is a polygon of sixteen sides, and 190 feet (58 m) in diameter, lighted from a dome-shaped roof, of the height of 50 feet (15.2 m). It contains 16 lines of rails, radiating from a single turn-table in the centre: the engines, on their arrival, are taken in there, placed upon

1944-554: The Illinois Central and Chicago & North Western depots coexisted with Union Station , and although most Metra commuter trains (and all Amtrak services) continue to use Union Station today, some lines depart from other terminals, such as Ogilvie Transportation Center , LaSalle Street Station , or Millennium Station . The busiest station to be named "Union Station" is Toronto Union Station , which serves over 72 million passengers annually. The first union station building

2025-1147: The John Street Roundhouse , a former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive repair facility. The Canadian Pacific 374 steam engine is on display at the former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse in Vancouver , now the Roundhouse Community Centre designed by VIA Architecture. The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse in Victoria , British Columbia Several roundhouses exist in France; two exist at Chambéry , built between 1906 and 1910. Another two exist at Avignon , and three exist at Lyon with other roundhouses being at Bordeaux , Strasbourg , Dijon , Bayonne , Colmar , Paris , Marseille , Clermont-Ferrand , Mulhouse , Nevers , Toulon , Valence , and Saint Etienne . Several roundhouses survive in Germany, The roundhouses at Augsburg and Freilassing are home to

2106-546: The US and Canada no longer exist, lie in ruins, or have been repurposed; however, a small number of them still exist and continue to operate in their intended capacity as locomotive storing and servicing facilities. Of the roughly 3,000 roundhouses that once existed in North America, fewer than 200 roundhouses are extant in the US as of 2010 ; in Canada, none exist east of Montreal . Below is

2187-474: The 1950s as railroads converted from steam to diesel-electric power, which needed far less maintenance. Some were converted to service diesel engines , while others were used as storage or sold to other parties. Several dozen roundhouses stand today in active use by modern railroads and museums, although the majority of those still standing have been abandoned. An average of two per year are demolished or otherwise destroyed. The only roundhouse still in use as

2268-701: The Depot was renovated from early May until October 2012, as part of the Trolley Renewal Project. Santa Fe Depot is served by the Trolley's Blue Line and Green Line . The Santa Fe Depot serves as the southern terminus for the NCTD COASTER commuter rail service, which began weekday service on February 27, 1995. The station is located about forty-one miles (66 km) from the COASTER's northern terminus at Oceanside Transit Center . In addition to COASTER service,

2349-640: The SD&;A) discontinued passenger service, the SDERy having ceased operation some two years prior. Of the 77 California stations served by Amtrak in fiscal year 2017, the Santa Fe Depot was the third busiest in the state (behind only Los Angeles Union Station and Sacramento Valley Station ) and the 10th busiest in the Amtrak system, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 2,130 passengers daily. On June 20, 1879,

2430-580: The SD&A) ended on January 11, 1951, due to years of continued declining patronage. The front portico was removed in September 1954 to allow for the construction of a parking lot. On May 1, 1971, Amtrak took over operation of the San Diegan line, which operated its route between Santa Fe Depot and Union Station in Los Angeles. Santa Fe trainsets usually ran with no cabcar in the days before Amtrak took over

2511-608: The SP tracks a year later led to a frog war that ended on August 11, 1883, with a court order in the CSRR's favor. A track extension to San Bernardino was completed and the first regular passenger train arrived on September 13. The line became part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad's transcontinental rail line in 1885 via an extension of the California Southern from Colton north over

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2592-681: The Santa Fe Railway received a land grant from the Mexican government that allowed them to extend their reach through the valley of Sonora through to the coastal town of Guaymas on the Gulf of California . The Sonora Railway (an operating subsidiary ) allowed the Santa Fe to effectively compete with the Southern Pacific Railroad for business on the West Coast of the United States . Traffic on

2673-633: The Santa Fe began construction of its 126-mile (203 km)-long " Surf Line " between Los Angeles' La Grande Station and the National City depot. From 1886 to 1888, the Riverside, Santa Ana and Los Angeles Railway built a branch line from Highgrove southwest via Riverside , to Santa Ana and from Orange northwest to Los Angeles. Also in 1888, the San Bernardino and San Diego Railway completed its line from Oceanside north to Santa Ana, completing what

2754-481: The Santa Fe had ever built in the West. The new edifice featured a covered concourse some 650-foot (200 m) long by 106-foot (32 m) wide, with a main waiting room measuring 170-foot (52 m) by 55-foot (17 m). A 27-foot (8.2 m) by 650-foot (200 m) long arcade connected the passenger terminal with the baggage and express rooms. The cost of the station was approximately $ 300,000. An enlarged bus depot

2835-807: The Santa Fe ordered a six-car trainset from the Budd Company specifically for the initiation of a new, streamlined named train between the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal and San Diego. On March 27, 1938, the company inaugurated the San Diegan route, operating on a two-hour-and-30-minute schedule. A second San Diegan consist entered service on June 8, 1941, doubling the schedule to four daily round trips. Freight service consisted of one scheduled overnight train per day, though extras were run as required (sometimes numbering as many as 10–12 per day). The United States' entry into World War II saw

2916-496: The Union Pacific railways, which managed the station in Denver, Colorado. Railway roundhouse A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives . Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings contained or were adjacent to a turntable . Early steam locomotives normally traveled forwards only. Although reverse operations capabilities were soon built into locomotive mechanisms,

2997-484: The United States, although at least three times that many were built between 1840 and 1950. Many were demolished and rebuilt as locomotives became increasingly large. Several were built around 1840 for the earliest railroads. It is likely that the first in the US was built by the Baltimore and Ohio at Mt. Clare (Baltimore), although this cannot be confirmed because early records have been lost. Early roundhouses, especially those built in cold climates, were fully enclosed, with

3078-409: The bottom and top edges are finished with a frieze of stylized ziggurats. Today, a variety of bus, light rail, and commuter rail services call the station "home." The structure has retained most of its original features, including the large blue-and-white "Santa Fe" sign (which was added in the mid-1950s as a nod to its heritage) and the original, hundred-year-old oak benches. The San Diego Trolley ,

3159-451: The company needed a port closer to its rival's transcontinental terminus. Santa Fe transferred most of its engine terminal yard to San Bernardino in 1887, then established an interim port facility in Redondo Beach the following year. But when the railroad relocated its port operations to San Pedro's newly dredged, manmade harbor in 1911, it effectively ended San Diego's hopes to become the West Coast's southernmost commercial port. Though

3240-755: The controls were normally optimized for forward travel, and the locomotives often could not operate as well in reverse. Some passenger cars , such as observation cars , were also designed as late as the 1960s for operations in a particular direction. Turntables allowed locomotives or other rolling stock to be turned around for the return journey, and roundhouses, designed to radiate around the turntables, were built to service and store these locomotives. Most modern diesel and electric locomotives can run equally well in either direction, and many are push-pull trains with control cabs at each end. In addition, railroads often use multiple locomotives to pull trains, and even with locomotives that have distinct front and rear ends,

3321-416: The costs and benefits of its operations are shared proportionately among them. This contrasts with the system of trackage rights or running rights , where one railway company owns a line or facility, but allows another company to share it under a contractual agreement. However, the company that owns the union station and associated trackage does assign trackage rights to the railroads that use it. Many of

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3402-491: The country was anchored by a roundhouse, especially if a railroad owned more than a few locomotives. The largest concentration of roundhouses was in Chicago , with over 75 in and around the metropolitan region during the early 1900s. Other cities where multiple railroads terminated or were major division points also had over 20 roundhouses, such as Boston , Cleveland , St. Louis , Sioux City , Indianapolis , and Cincinnati . The largest "as-built" roundhouse ever constructed

3483-457: The elegant California Southern depot had served San Diego for nearly three decades, the station was not adequate to handle the expected flood of visitors through the "Silver Gate" in 1915. In fact, the Santa Fe had considered replacing the aging "D" Street station with a larger, more modern edifice. Plans were drawn up for a new station complex in the Mission Revival Style, befitting the upcoming Exposition. The large, graceful palm trees that graced

3564-449: The engines at opposing ends of a locomotive "consist" (a group of locomotives coupled together and controlled as a single unit) can be aligned so they face opposite directions. With such a setup, trains needing to reverse direction can use a technique known as a "run around," in which the engines are uncoupled from the train, pull around it on an adjacent track or siding, and reattach at the other end. The engineer changes operating ends from

3645-468: The establishment of a joint-use station. In contrast, an interchange station ( 乗換駅 , Norikae-eki ) in Japan is where different sections of a station are managed by different companies at the same time. Many joint-use stations in Japan are located at or near the boundary of two railway lines operated by different companies that operate through services to each other, such as Meinohama Station in Fukuoka , where JR Kyushu 's Chikuhi Line meets

3726-470: The exposition nine scheduled trains ran on during the week (eight only made stops at Fullerton and Santa Ana , while the ninth was a local that stopped at all of the "Surf Line" stations). Twelve trains operated on weekends, many running in multiple sections. Four helper locomotives were assigned to the Sorrento Grade to help trains over the hill for the duration of the Exposition. John D. Spreckels ' San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) made regular stops at

3807-438: The facility not only handled Santa Fe traffic but also that of the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) and San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy). The designation was officially changed to "San Diego Union Station" in response to the SD&A's completion of its own transcontinental line in December 1919. Santa Fe resumed solo operation of the station in January 1951 when the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (successor to

3888-424: The first roundhouse is thought to be Birmingham . England, built in 1837. Some turntables that were built in earlier days rapidly became unsuitable for the longer locomotives introduced. For example, the Roundhouse in London was built in 1846 to turn around steam locomotives on the line to Birmingham, but newer locomotives were too long within ten years—the building has been preserved and used for other purposes over

3969-472: The great dieselisation era of the 1940s and 1950s, many roundhouses have been demolished or put to other uses, but a few still stand and remain in use on the railroads. Early roundhouses were too small for later locomotives. The buildings' peculiar shapes can make it challenging to adapt them to new uses, but they can also be visually pleasing. Roundhouses were originally constructed to service steam locomotives. In North America, regular daily serving began with

4050-465: The jointly owned stations were built by terminal railroads . Examples include the Ogden Union Railway & Depot Company, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific to manage the Ogden Union Station in Ogden, Utah; and the Denver Terminal Railway Company, representing the Denver & Rio Grande Western , Chicago Burlington & Quincy , Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe , Colorado & Southern and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific and

4131-493: The line, however, was light, and Santa Fe pushed further westward in search of a suitable Pacific terminus. Since 1845, the citizens of San Diego (then essentially a sleepy fishing village) had attempted to establish a direct rail link to the east without success. The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas , and San Diego. The T&P had

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4212-477: The main marshalling yard of Prague . Three routes flowed into it: Pražská spojovací dráha (the Prague Connecting Railroad, 1872), the extension of Buštěhradská dráha from Hostivice (1872) and Pražsko-duchcovská dráha (the Railroad Prague – Duchcov , 1873). Nowadays the "společné nádraží" forms an unremarkable separate platform of the station Praha-Smíchov , known in timetables as "Praha-Smíchov severní nástupiště" (the northern platform). "Společné nádraží"

4293-400: The new complex. As of January 12, 1882, the California Southern commenced regular passenger and freight service between its National City terminus and Fallbrook Junction, just north of Oceanside . Tracklaying continued and proceeded steadily northward until August 14, 1882, when a connection was made with the Southern Pacific's line in Colton . The California Southern's attempts to cross over

4374-414: The old depot were boxed and stored for re-planting alongside the new building. Construction began on a site just east of the existing structure on January 15, 1914, and was completed on December 31, at a total cost of $ 300,000 (equivalent to $ 9.13 million in 2023 adjusted for inflation). A Fred Harvey Company lunch counter and dining room were incorporated into the floor plan. The old wooden structure

4455-461: The one in Boston ; for example, the Union Pacific roundhouse in Cheyenne , Wyoming was lengthened in 1930 to accommodate the new 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" articulated locomotives being delivered. After the expansion it was 560 feet (170 m) in diameter and constituted a near full-circle. A portion of this roundhouse still stands and is used by Union Pacific to store heritage rolling stock. The vast majority of roundhouses were torn down beginning in

4536-410: The opening of the Canal, and to tout San Diego as the first U.S. port for ships traveling north after passing through the facility. But San Diego, even with its natural landlocked harbor, was 100 miles (161 km) farther south than Los Angeles, which translated into an additional day of travel for both freight and passenger trains; in order for Santa Fe to compete with the Southern Pacific Railroad ,

4617-435: The operation of the San Diegan . To make this work, Santa Fe trains backed up, and turned the trains around at the Washington Street Wye , just about 3 miles north of the station near San Diego International Airport . The wye is not longer in service today, and has been torn up and removed from the site. After more than sixty years of service, the San Diegan was rebranded as the Pacific Surfliner , reflecting extensions of

4698-437: The original Midland Counties Railway workshop. The new site was opened in September 2009. Tours can be arranged through Derby Tourist Information Centre . In Leeds , Thomas Grainger designed the roundhouse near Armley Gyratory that was opened in 1847, with accommodation for 20 trains from the Leeds & Thirsk Railway . It was operational until 1904. The Fenton, Murray and Jackson building in Leeds (1831–1843),

4779-428: The original locomotive to the one on the opposite end of the locomotive consist. Railroad terminals also use features such as balloon loops and wyes (Commonwealth: triangle ) to reverse the orientation of railroad equipment. Because of the advent of these practices, modern roundhouses are frequently not round and are simply large buildings used for servicing locomotives. Like much other railroad terminology, however,

4860-459: The proposal have settled on a new southern terminus, a proposed San Diego International Airport intermodal transit center (ITC) to be built at Washington Street and Pacific Highway by 2035, as extending the high-speed rail line into downtown San Diego was likely to prove problematic. Union station In the U.S., union stations are typically used by all the passenger trains serving a city, although exceptions exist. For example, in Chicago ,

4941-507: The remaining four tracks handle both commuter and intercity rail service. BNSF freight trains pass through the station, typically on the westernmost track to either head south towards the freight yards, or northwards away from San Diego. The station was earlier studied as the possible southern terminus for the planned California High-Speed Rail system. Upon completion, passengers would have been able to get to Los Angeles Union Station in 1 hour and 18 minutes. However, subsequent revisions to

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5022-440: The restored railcar maintenance roundhouse of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , originally built in 1884. The roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois , constructed in 1856, was purchased and restored by NFL football player Walter Payton in 1995. After Payton's death, the roundhouse was occupied by a micro-brewery and renamed Two Brothers Roundhouse , with a plaque mounted in Payton's honor. The vast majority of roundhouses built in

5103-471: The route over the past two decades to the Central Coast. Since the nearest wye is now 16 miles away in Miramar , Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains operate in push-pull mode, with an engine at one end and a cabcar at the other end. In 1972 Santa Fe proposed to demolish the station and replace it with two 12-story buildings. After protests from the Save Our Heritage Organization, the city's Historical Review Board, and Mayor Pete Wilson , Amtrak agreed to preserve

5184-424: The signature twin domes, is often echoed in the design of modern buildings in downtown San Diego . The historic depot is located in the Core district of downtown San Diego and is still an active transportation center, providing services to Amtrak California intercity trains, Coaster commuter rail trains, the San Diego Trolley , and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus system. Santa Fe Depot (as it

5265-670: The similar term Gemeinschaftsbahnhof is used in administrative language only; it applies for stations with joint facilities as well as for stations with side-by-side facilities; some border stations also fall under that term. The general public often call them " Hauptbahnhof " (main station), but this is a misnomer, as stations administratively classified as "Hauptbahnhof" need not be served by multiple operators. Many major stations in Germany are served by various trains operated by incumbent Deutsche Bahn and other railways that operate local passenger trains, sometimes also by railway companies of neighbor states that operate trans-border connections;

5346-399: The spring of 1887 brought thousands of people to Southern California, many of them traveling on "The Santa Fé Route" to San Diego. The California Southern constructed a new Victorian -style depot to handle the throngs of people coming to the Southland. The structure sported dark red paint with dark green trim. Recurring washouts in Temecula Canyon, however, often disrupted service; in response,

5427-434: The station also serves as the southern terminus for Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner , successor to the San Diegan. It runs from San Diego through Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo , though the great majority of trains run along the " Surf Line " from San Diego to Los Angeles Union Station , the second busiest rail corridor in the United States after the Northeast Corridor . Amtrak passenger figures from Santa Fe Depot reached

5508-472: The station if the city would redevelop the surrounding neighborhood. The magnificent complex was designed by San Francisco architects Bakewell and Brown as a "monumental reminder" of California's Spanish heritage. The Mission Revival styling reflects the colonial Spanish history of the state, and was intended to harmonize with the Spanish Colonial Revival style buildings of the Panama–California Exposition . The size and grandeur far surpassed anything

5589-487: The station since its opening, and continued to do so until April 24, 1949, when San Diego adopted an all-bus transit system. Spreckels' other rail-related concern, the San Diego and Arizona Railway (built in part to provide San Diego with a direct transcontinental rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro ) was invited to make use of the facility. The first SD&A passenger train arrived in downtown on December 1, 1919. In 1936

5670-446: The structure has retained its traditional name. The alternative term engine-house encompasses both semi-circular and rectangular structures and broadly describes all buildings intended for storage and servicing of locomotives. Shops or workshops are buildings containing hoists and heavy machinery capable of major repairs beyond routine servicing. Some roundhouses include shop facilities internally or in adjoining buildings. Since

5751-525: The town of Oceanside in north San Diego County ) than it does from the nearby Mission San Diego de Alcalá , some nine miles (14 km) away. The grand interior space of the depot features natural redwood beam ceilings, highlighted by walls covered with a brightly colored ceramic tile wainscot. The glazed faience tile used in the wainscot was manufactured by the California China Products Company of nearby National City. Elaborate Hispano-Moorish designs are executed in green, yellow, blue, white, and black and

5832-426: The turn-table, and wheeled into any stall that may be vacant. Each of the 16 stalls will hold two, or perhaps more, engines. This roundhouse narrowly escaped demolition when the works closed down, and was classified as a listed building . It was restored in 2010, being converted into a brand new site for Derby College , with a new addition called the 'Stephenson Building' including the other survival of demolition –

5913-428: The turntable as well as the stalls under cover. Once locomotives became too large to fit in these structures, they were torn down and replaced with "doughnut"-shaped structures that surrounded an open turntable. Although some roundhouses used by Class 1 railroads were built as a full-circle with as many as 52 stalls, the vast majority were only part of a circle with 12 or fewer stalls. Nearly every locomotive terminal in

5994-565: The two neighbors. In Bohemia (part of the territory of the Czech Republic today) some stations were called the "společné nádraží" (the common station) before the state took over the private railway companies. "Praha-Smíchov společné nádraží" is to this day the functional name of the second station built in 1872 by the same investor near the first station Smíchov of the Pražská západní dráha ( Prague Western Railroad ). The new station served as

6075-564: The years. Valley Heights roundhouse , 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Sydney , New South Wales , is the oldest surviving roundhouse in Australia, and has been preserved as a railway museum. The London Roundhouse Project London, Ontario , Canada, is an extensive renovation of the Michigan Central Railroad steam locomotive repair shop which was built in 1887. It is to become the new home of Ellipsis Digital and Engine SevenFour,

6156-676: Was Columbus Union Station in 1851, though Indianapolis Union Station , planned in 1848 and built in 1853, had more elements of a cooperative union station. In most countries in Europe , throughout much of the 20th century, railways have been owned and operated by state enterprises . Where only one railway company exists, there is no need for a "joint station". However, before nationalisation many companies existed and sometimes they had "joint stations". In some cases this persists today. "Joint stations" are often found near borders where two state-owned railway companies meet. In German-speaking countries ,

6237-457: Was built 1845–1848 at Brno . "Společné nádraží" was at Železná Ruda as well, station at border Bavaria – Austro-Hungarian Empire . It was in operation 1878–1938. Nowadays the largest stations are called "hlavní nádraží" (main station). In the United Kingdom , before the railways were nationalised in 1948, stations shared by multiple operators were referred to as "joint stations", but

6318-470: Was installed in the southeast portico in 1942. The massive arch of the front entrance is flanked by twin campaniles , each topped by a colorful tile-covered dome and displaying Santa Fe's blue "cross" emblem on all four sides. The structure draws much more heavily from the architecturally distinctive Spanish, Moorish , and Mexican lines exhibited by the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (located in

6399-611: Was originally called the "Los Angeles-San Diego Short Line." The inland route was finally abandoned in 1891, leaving the newer, coastal route as the only line to San Diego from the north. It was generally felt that with the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, San Diego would logically become the principal port of call for the Atlantic-Pacific sea trade. To that end, the City decided to stage an international exposition in celebration of

6480-505: Was originally designated) officially opened on March 8, 1915, to accommodate visitors to the Panama–California Exposition . The depot was completed during a particularly optimistic period in the city's development and represents the battle waged by the City of San Diego to become the West Coast terminus of the Santa Fe's transcontinental railroad , a fight that was ultimately lost to the City of Los Angeles . In its heyday,

6561-476: Was razed during the few days before the opening; the clock tower was ceremonially toppled on March 7, 1915. The facility opened for business on March 8. Oliver J. Stough, the last surviving veteran of the Mexican–American War , was given the honor of purchasing the first ticket. At the outset, the Santa Fe had three daily local trains and one express train running between Los Angeles and San Diego. During

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