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Oakland Pier

By Brian Schmidt | July 5, 2021

Oakland Pier

The California Zephyr’s signature sleeper-observation-dome car, complete with neon tail sign, gleams in Southern Pacific’s Oakland Pier station 10 minutes before departure on June 15, 1958. John C. Illman photo

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