Sacramento Valley Station Renovation

[KmH]

April 2015 - Looking northwest at the rear door, ticket counter in the middle, baggage check further left, and the sleeper pax waiting area further left in the far back corner.

October 2016, and shot from almost the same spot as the above photo. The sleeper pax waiting area is there just to the left of the rear door and in front of the right most Ticket/Baggage entrance.

The station main waiting area is now longer to the east. In this shot the rear door is to the right behind the corner of a temporary wall.

The new ticket/baggage check/baggage storage counter

Towards the front entrance

One of the chandeliers and some roof detail. The clock wasn't working.

The painstakingly restored mural. I had to use my D300s built-in, pop-up flash unit set to full power.

 

[The_Traveler]

Love those retro refurbs.
I wish the vending machine companies had less ugly machines.

 

[KmH]

Yep.
The vending machines are kind'a like fingernails dragged across a blackboard.
Artist John A. MacQuarrie painted the mural celebrating the groundbreaking at the west end of the First Transcontinental Railroad on January 8, 1863 there in Sacramento.

I tried to imagine how many butts have sat on those Southern Pacific Lines benches since the station opened 90 years ago (1926).
It's the 2nd busiest train station in California, and the 7th busiest train station in the US.