Sacramento station (Western Pacific Railroad)

{{Short description|Former train stop}}

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{{Infobox station

|name=Sacramento

|address=1910 J Street
Sacramento, CA

|coordinates= {{coord|38.576458|-121.480760|display=inline,title}}

|image=File:Western Pacific Railroad station in Sacramento, circa 1910.jpg

|caption= The station shortly after opening, roughly 1910

|opened=1910

|closed=1970

|line=Feather River Route

|services={{adjacent stations

|system1=Western Pacific Railroad

|line1=California Zephyr|left1=Stockton|right1=Marysville

|line2=Feather River Route|left2=Sacramento 11th and I street|right2=Globe

}}

}}

Western Pacific Passenger Depot is a former railway station in Sacramento, California, located at 19th and J Streets.{{cite news |last1=Burg |first1=William |title=Very Old Spaghetti Factory |url=http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/very-old-spaghetti-factory/ |accessdate=4 June 2020 |agency=Midtown Monthly |date=August 18, 2010}} Opened in 1910 by the Western Pacific Railroad as part of the Feather River Route, the station would go on to serve the original California Zephyr until the service was discontinued in 1970.{{cite news |last1=Bizjak |first1=Tony |title=Catch an Amtrak toward L.A. from midtown Sacramento? Train officials propose new service. |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/article177028481.html |accessdate=10 May 2020 |agency=Sacramento Bee |date=11 June 2018}} The Old Spaghetti Factory opened in the old building in 1978.

The station building was designed by Willis Polk in the Mission Revival style.{{cite book |last1=Burg |first1=William |title=Sacramento's K Street: Where Our City Was Born |date=2012 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1-61423-587-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cop2CQAAQBAJ&dq=%22western+pacific%22&pg=PA1890 |accessdate=4 June 2020}}