Watering Trough

Historical marker location:

913 Meridian Avenue, South Pasadena, California

( Marker is on Meridian Avenue south of Mission Street, in the median.)

Marker installed: 1968

and Wayside Station.

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.