First Transcontinental Railroad
FIRST
TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD
ON SEPTEMBER 6TH, 1869, FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD TRAIN LINKING TWO GREAT OCEANS AND
CONSISTING OF TWELVE CARS AND THREE LOCOMOTIVES
PASSED HERE ON WAY TO A WHARF TERMINAL WEST
OF HERE, A LOCATION NOW COVERED BY LAGOON
FOR TAKE-OFF TRANS-PACIFIC PLANES, AND WITHIN
CONFINES PRESENT U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION.
ORIGINAL CELEBRATION HELD NEAR THIS SPOT.
ERECTED BY THE CALIFORNIA CENTENNIALS COMMISSION
IN COOPERATION WITH THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DEDICATED 1951
THIS PLAQUE ERECTED
THROUGH THE GENEROSITY
OF
HON. JOSEPH R. KNOWLAND
A NATIVE OF THIS CITY
IN COOPERATION WITH
ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL