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Bakersfield statiob

Bakersfield, Italy

Bakersfield station is a former Southern Pacific Railroad station and hotel in Bakersfield, California, United States. The station opened June 27, 1889, in the town of Sumner (which was later annexed by Bakersfield). The station was a mixture of Richardsonian Romanesque, Spanish Colonial Revival, an

d Moderne styles. It was closed in 1971, after the formation of Amtrak. The Sumner station served Southern Pacific passenger trains that ran on the San Joaquin Valley Route, including the San Joaquin Daylight, Sacramento Daylight, Owl Limited, and West Coast. It has been used as an office building and crew change center by Union Pacific. On extremely rare occasions, it is used as a stop for the Coast Starlight when Union Pacific's Coast Line is closed.

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