Attached is a photo of the Woodland depot I've never seen before, from Street Railway Review and taken around 1912. If so, the depot was brand new, as that was the year it was built.
Originally the Woodland Branch was the Sacramento & Woodland Railway, a Northern Electric subsidiary. In the early days, trains did not terminate in Sacramento, but continued on to Woodland, which was considered the end of the mainline. This ended in 1914, and from then on the branch was just that, a branch, with its own timetable, and mainline trains ended their?runs in Sacramento.
The branch was supposed to have continued to tidewater as the Vallejo & Northern, but only the V&N's middle section that would become the SN Fairfield-Suisun Branch was built. The V&N was a casualty of the NE's bankruptcy.
My second picture is how the station looked in the mid-1960s. By then only the baggage/express section remained. It was torn down a few years later, only to be replaced by a replica of the whole building which is in use for commercial space. The photo is by my late father, Glenn Groff.
