Still on Patrol

Historical marker location:

1653 Mulford Point Drive, San Leandro, California

( Memorial is on Mulford Point Drive near Monarch Bay Drive, on the left when traveling south.)

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.