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184:. An interesting aspect of the postcard image that Howcheng mentions is the caption that reads "3510 The Southern Pacific Broad Gauge Depot, San Jose, California." since the SP only operated standard gauge and a few narrow gauge lines in the Bay area (former logging railroads in the Santa Cruz mountains), perhaps the term "Broad Gauge" was applied and intended to distinguish the subject of that image from the other narrow gauge stations in and around San José that Southern Pacific also operated at the time. At any rate it does seem to be the San José Market Street Station and trainshed, not Santa Clara. 31: 112:
I suppose that another way that the redundancy could have been eliminated would have been to do away with the infobox (which really doesn't seem all that well-suited for an intermodal station) and keep this information in the actual article. If there's a lot of people that would prefer to do it this
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I've removed the section entitled "Transit carriers serving Diridon Station" as it is redundant to the information in the infobox at the top of the article. There's no sense having the exact same information in two seperate parts of the article. I've moved any useful external links that were in
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which at first I thought was for this station, but the SP Depot was constructed in 1935, so that image must be for something else, maybe for the older station that the newer station replaced? Any ideas? Thanks.
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I have removed MST connection as they no longer serve San Jose per their COA. I also removed the VTA Express 168 route as it has been replaced by the Rapid 568.
180:. For a web page with a couple of other old photos of the San Jose Market Street Station, along with photos of a modeller's attempts to recreate it, please see 128: 185: 85: 177: 47: 17: 176:
perpendicular to the length of the station house and tracks just like the San José Market Street Station and unlike
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Grey3k, I disagree with your apprisal of that image. The building depicted has a high gable roofed
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I removed Limited line 300 from the list of connections, as it's been replaced by 522.
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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
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way, feel free to change it. I don't have a strong preference either way. --
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Howcheng, that looks more like the Santa Clara Depot, completed in 1863 -
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Talk:San Jose Diridon station
archive
current talk page
Archive 1
unsigned
2601:642:4C04:614D:E9C9:188A:F0A0:431C
talk
04:23, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Brianvdb
12:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Image:Southern Pacific Depot 1909.jpg
howcheng
chat
00:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/scd.htm
Grey3k
talk
20:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
transept
Santa Clara Station
this page from Robert Bowdidge
76.102.49.27
talk
11:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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