Caltrains
Unfinished History
Caltrain, the publicly maintained commuter rail from San Jose to San Francisco, rolls south near the 22nd St. station.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The 4th & Townsend Caltrain terminal, as it looked until its late 1990s makeover. (A block away at 3rd, there once stood a beautiful Spanish Mission style station, in the days when steaming locomotives brought thousands into the city every day.)
Photo: Chris Carlsson
3rd & Townsend, c. 1935, Southern Pacific railroad depot
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA