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Originally Posted by travis bickle
Are you saying that the CITY is forcing the station's move?
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Yes, absolutely. SORD is just a small advocacy group, and really doesn't have the power to force anyone to do anything. The city makes the decisions on this matter, and at most they take what preservationists say under advisement, if they listen at all.
The depot was built in the 1920s, when rail transit was the primary mode of long-distance transportation in the United States, Southern Pacific was still the wealthiest and most powerful railroad in the western United States, and Sacramento was an important hub of the American railroad network. The original passenger yard occupied about three times as many tracks, so if anything the current track configuration is far, far less than the capacity of the 1920s era depot: the interior of the station, as I mentioned, is highly underutilized and could handle considerably more traffic than it currently does.
On what information do you base your assessment that the station is obsolete, or undersized?