BNSF has stated that, although the entire line is now within so-called yard limits and a segment between mileposts 8 in Inglewood and 14 in El Segundo " mothballed ," the line will remain open to service businesses on the route and as an alternate route should the Alameda Corridor suffer an accident or derailment.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

Alameda, the largest island, was created when a shipping lane was cut in 1901.

The park ( Alameda de la Alhambra ), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges and myrtles ; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812.

* was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California

Later, the western part of the route was extended to the Alameda Terminal in Alameda, California, and shortly thereafter, to the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point in Oakland, California.

Prior to this, the site was in an unincorporated area of Alameda County.

His father, Amos Mefford Hanks ( born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992 ), was an itinerant cook.

His mother, Janet Marylyn ( née Frager ; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932 ), was a hospital worker.

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County.

Only the existing portion from just north of Alameda de las Pulgas to just south of Stanford Shopping Center was widened to four lanes ; the new extension past the shopping center was built only as two lanes.

The tension was relieved when a road, the Alameda, was built by two hundred Indians to link the communities together.

BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County.

His father was an Oakland city government official, president of the Zion Lutheran Church, and served 24 years in the non-partisan office of Treasurer of Alameda County.

The Coast Guard base on Government Island ( now known as Coast Guard Island ) Alameda, California was also used as a second major recruit training center until it was closed in 1982 and converted into the base for the USCG Pacific Area Command, the Eleventh Coast Guard District, the Marine Safety Office San Francisco Bay, the USCG Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific and the Integrated Support Command Center-Alameda.

The merged company was acquired by Hasbro Interactive in 1998, and what had been Spectrum HoloByte ceased to exist when the development studio in Alameda was closed in 1998.

Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.

The Alameda County district attorney later dropped the case for lack of evidence, and in 2004 the FBI and the City of Oakland agreed to a $ 4 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Bari's estate, and her friend, over their false arrest.

The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds is the oldest horse racing track in America, dating back to 1858, when it was founded by the sons of the Spaniard Don Agustin Bernal.

* Alameda County, California – northwest by a corner

Ashland is an unincorporated community and thus is governed directly by Alameda County.

The area is policed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Castro Valley is an unincorporated community and thus is governed directly by the County of Alameda.

There is no city police force, with policing provided by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Cherryland is an unincorporated community and thus is governed directly by the County of Alameda.

The area is policed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

In 1878 land belonging to the Washington Township, of Alameda County were purchased by The Pacific Land Investment Company, this area was then subdivided into the Newark town-site. The population of this newly developing suburban area did not exceed more that one hundred residents.

San Lorenzo is an unincorporated community and thus is governed directly by the County of Alameda.

The area is policed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Situated among oak-studded hills between Woodside, Redwood City, and San Carlos roughly bounded by Edgewood Road, Alameda de las Pulgas, Farm Hill Boulevard, and Interstate 280.

Nearer to town, and directly east and adjacent to Mission Santa Barbara, is a hill known locally as the " Riviera ," traversed by " Alameda Padre Serra " ( shortened APS ), " Father Serra's pathway.

During the 17th century, the number of Native Americans dropped drastically due to diseases brought by the European settlers, such as measles and small pox, and by the 1640s the Tiwa population was concentrated into four major pueblos ; Isleta, Sandia, Puaray and Alameda.

Originally headquartered in Rockville, Maryland ( relocated to Alameda, California ), it was established in May 1998 by PE Corporation ( later renamed to Applera ), with Dr. J. Craig Venter from The Institute for Genomic Research ( TIGR ) as its first president.

The Rio Rancho area was originally part of the Alameda Grant, which was founded by the Spanish in 1710.

After Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation bought the works in 1905, the consolidated company came to include the Alameda Works Shipyard, located across the San Francisco Bay in Alameda and the Hunter's Point shipyard to the south.

In early 2011, the City Council created an ad hoc America's Cup Citizens Advisory Committee to look for ways that Alameda could draw interest from teams and potential spectators.

Enough water remained so the Alameda Naval Air Station used Tulare Lake as an outlying seaplane base during World War II and the early years of the Cold War.

Clear Lake was used as an outlying seaplane base for Alameda Naval Air Station during World War II and the early years of the cold war.

In the early 1900s, the original " East Side " of Central Los Angeles was along Alameda Street, bordered by Brooklyn Avenue or Macy Street ( Now renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue ), Pico and Olympic boulevards and the Los Angeles River or later Indiana Avenue, was sometimes nicknamed Bronzeville in the 1930s and 1940s, due to the mass migration of Mexican Americans, as well Black Americans from the Southeastern U. S. arrived in the Great Depression and World War II mainly settled along Azusa Street and Temple Street ( see the Azusa Street Revival ) bordered by First and Sixth streets, some Koreans after the Korean War in the 1950s and 1960s, and even the Cherokee Indians from Oklahoma, USA to the section where the El Pueblo de Los Angeles: the Mexican pueblo turned to California state historic site happened to be located.

The Alameda Corridor allows trains to bypass 90 miles ( 145 km ) of early 20th century branch lines and the Santa Fe's historic Harbor Subdivision along a high-speed grade-separated corridor ( mainly built on the alignment of a former SP line ), avoiding more than 200 at-grade railroad crossings where cars and trucks previously had to wait for long freight trains to slowly pass.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Alameda attracted many wealthy residents who built mansions along it.