which extended from Yerba Buena Avenue nearly to Yerba Buena Island (built on the site of the original California and Nevada Railroad wharf). The area is now Judge John Sutter Regional Shoreline. Oakland Long Wharf/The Oakland Mole and Pier The Western Pacific Mole began construction in 1906 and opened for business in 1910. It operated until 1933, and the passenger terminal was demolished in 1940. The area is now the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. The Alameda Mole existed from 1876 to the 1930s and was used to connect San Francisco to Santa Cruz via a narrow-gauge railroad, initially owned by the South Pacific Coast Railroad, which was purchased by Southern Pacific in 1878. It was also used by Red Line trolley cars, and in the 1930s Pan American built a seaplane port at the base of the mole. The Alameda Terminal and wharf, at the foot of Pacific Avenue in Alameda, was part of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (1863–1870) and became the original western terminus of the First transcontinental railroad on September 6, 1869, when the first Western Pacific through train from Sacramento arrived at Alameda Terminal. In popular culture The mole in its latter years can be seen at the beginning of the 1957 movie Pal Joey as Frank Sinatra's character arrives by train and makes his way to the ferry. It also appears in the 1952 noir film "Sudden Fear" starring Joan Crawford. See also Ferries of San Francisco Bay References Bibliography External links Middle Harbor Shoreline Park map Photo: Oakland Long Wharf from Goat Island (Yerba Buena Island) 1886 alamedainfo.com CPRR Museum: Oakland Long Wharf CPRR Museum: SP Publ. "From Rail to Trail" Piers in California History of Oakland, California San Francisco Bay Southern Pacific Railroad Transportation in Oakland, California Railway stations in Oakland, California