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Untitled

I removed Limited line 300 from the list of connections, as it's been replaced by 522.

Transit carriers section

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 this section to the "External Links" section.

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 way, feel free to change it. I don't have a strong preference either way. --Brianvdb 12:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image help

Hi, I found this image Image:Southern Pacific Depot 1909.jpg 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. howcheng {chat} 00:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Howcheng, that looks more like the Santa Clara Depot, completed in 1863 - http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/scd.htm Grey3k (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Grey3k, I disagree with your apprisal of that image. The building depicted has a high gable roofed transept perpendicular to the length of the station house and tracks just like the San José Market Street Station and unlike Santa Clara Station. 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 this page from Robert Bowdidge. 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. 76.102.49.27 (talk) 11:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Interior Photo of San Jose Diridon

I uploaded the image above to the Wikimedia Commons, and I'm wondering whether it would be worth including it in the Diridon Station article, and how best to do so. // Internet Esquire (talk) 17:33, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

I have just assessed this article as Start Class. I think that it wouldn't take a great deal of work for this article to become C Class though. The boss 1998 (talk) 16:39, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google

It's odd that there's no mention of the Diridon-related plans of Google described here in WP. Would the "Future" section of this article be a place to at least mention the planning? Dicklyon (talk) 06:03, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]