Alhambra station explained

Style:Amtrak
Style2:Amtrak old
Alhambra, CA
Address:2200 West Mission Road[1]
Alhambra, California
Coordinates:34.0796°N -118.1488°W
Former:Shorb
Owned:Southern Pacific Transportation Company
Line:SP Alhambra Subdivision
Tracks:2
Train Operators:Amtrak
Rebuilt:1940
Other Services Header:Former services

Alhambra station was a train station in Alhambra, California. It was last served by the Amtrak Sunset Limited.

History

Opened in 1886 as Shorb,[2] the station was a stop on the transcontinental Southern Pacific Railroad Sunset Limited.[3] The first building was located at Garfield Avenue and Mission Road.[4] A separate Alhambra station operated 2miles to the east.[5]

Pacific Electric built their route for the Shorb Line spur here in 1912 to connect their interurban system to the transcontinental passenger network; their passenger service ceased in 1924.

The station building was reconstructed in 1940. Passenger services were commuted to Amtrak in 1971, who took over operations at the depot. Trains ceased to stop in 1975 as the station was bypassed.[6] The tracks were depressed into a trench by the city with work starting in 1977.[7] The tracks currently run in the trench below surface grade throughout Alhambra, rejoining grade-level tracks in El Monte adjacent to Metrolink’s El Monte station, served by the San Bernardino Line. The station was subsequently destroyed by a fire in 1984.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1975-05-15 . All-America Schedules . 2020-12-08 . Amtrak . The Museum of Railway Timetables.
  2. Book: <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> . Southern Pacific System: List of Officers, Agencies and Stations . 1899 . Southern Pacific . 2016-07-20.
  3. Book: Passenger Train Schedules . 1966-06-03 . Southern Pacific . Streamliner Memories.
  4. Book: Orozco, Michael Anthony . Alhambra . Alhambra Historical Society . 2012 . Arcadia Publishing . 9780738576077 . 41–44.
  5. Book: Southern California Arizona and New Mexico . January 7, 1913 . Southern Pacific . 6 . 5 September 2023.
  6. Web site: 1975-11-30 . All-America Schedules . 2020-12-08 . Amtrak . The Museum of Railway Timetables.
  7. Web site: History of Alhambra (1771 to Present) . 2020-12-09 . City of Alhambra . December 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201201180208/https://www.cityofalhambra.org/resources/history-of-alhambra . dead .
  8. Book: Orzoco, Michael Anthony . Images of America: Alhambra . 2012 . . 9780738576077 . Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.