Santa Rosa–Railroad Square station

Santa Rosa–Railroad Square
Santa Rosa–Railroad Square
	SMART train station
	The station during the free ride trial period in July 2017
Location	7 4th Street; Santa Rosa, California ; United States
Line(s)	NWP
Tracks	2
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1903; July 1, 2017 (SMART preview) [1] ; August 25, 2017 (SMART full service)
Closed	ca. 1958 (NWP)
Previous names	Santa Rosa
Services
	Railroad Square District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Site of station in California Santa Rosa–Railroad Square station (the US)
Coordinates	38°26′16″N122°43′18″W / 38.4377°N 122.7218°W Coordinates: 38°26′16″N122°43′18″W / 38.4377°N 122.7218°W
Built by	Northwestern Pacific Railroad
NRHP reference #	79000561
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1979

Last updated February 20, 2019

Santa Rosa–Railroad Square is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit train station in Santa Rosa. It opened to SMART preview service on July 1, 2017;^[1] full commuter service commenced on August 25, 2017. It is located west of Wilson Street between 4th and 5th Streets, across the U.S. Route 101 freeway from downtown at the site of the Santa Rosa Northwestern Pacific Railroad Depot.

Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a passenger rail service and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California. The SMART District was established by state legislation in 2002. When completed, the entire system will serve a 70-mile (110 km) corridor between Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County and Larkspur Landing in Marin County.

Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in California's Wine Country. Its estimated 2016 population was 175,155. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Redwood Empire, Wine Country and the North Bay; the fifth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont; and the 28th most populous city in California.

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History

The original Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) Depot was built in 1903. Surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the station was eventually served by ten trains a day. Increased automobile ownership and highway construction led to decline of rail use in Sonoma County, thus leading to disuse of the facility as a passenger terminal^[5] around 1958.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. Thousands of homes were dismantled. As a result, up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American disasters.

In popular culture

Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt , featured scenes filmed at the original NWP depot.^[6]

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The 2003 film, Cheaper by the Dozen , features a scene of the station when Tom Baker, played by Steve Martin, reunites with his family after finding his runaway son.

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Railroad Square Historic District

The station is the focal point of the Railroad Square Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places historic district designated in 1979.

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The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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References

1 2 "SMART Public Preview Rides". SMART. SMART. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
↑ "Northwestern Pacific Railroad Timetable". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
↑ "San Francisco, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Ukiah, Willits, Longvale, Dos Rios, Island Mountain, Fort Seward and Eureka – Via Sausalito". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
↑ "San Francisco, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Ukiah, Willits, Longvale, Dos Rios, Island Mountain, Fort Seward and Eureka – Via Sausalito". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
↑ "A History of Railroad Square". Historic Railroad Square Association. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
↑ Fimrite, Peter (18 April 2008). "Windsor rebuilds depot sans train". Hears Communications. San Francisco Gate. Retrieved 15 June 2016.

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[Preview-1] 1 2 "SMART Public Preview Rides". SMART. SMART. Retrieved 6 July 2017.

[2] "Northwestern Pacific Railroad Timetable". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[3] "San Francisco, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Ukiah, Willits, Longvale, Dos Rios, Island Mountain, Fort Seward and Eureka – Via Sausalito". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[4] "San Francisco, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, Ukiah, Willits, Longvale, Dos Rios, Island Mountain, Fort Seward and Eureka – Via Sausalito". Northwestern Pacific Railroad Network. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[5] "A History of Railroad Square". Historic Railroad Square Association. Retrieved 17 May 2016.

[6] Fimrite, Peter (18 April 2008). "Windsor rebuilds depot sans train". Hears Communications. San Francisco Gate. Retrieved 15 June 2016.