The old Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, languishing since 1973, was dedicated on 10/11/2018 for Passenger Service again with a ribbon cutting cermony.

Once the newly formed LHG saved the Depot from Southern Pacific's poised bulldozer in 1973 (stopping workmen in their destruction), we had no recourse to turn it into a museum. Developers leased the building to a restaurant (destroying more of its historical fabric). They added a railroad refrigerator car (now at a rail museum) for further dining and built out a cinder block kitchen. That restaurant lasted four years. The building was let to some Realtors and non-profits. Soon abandoned, it again became derelict attracting homeless misuse for 40 years.

It finally passed to the City proper who sought federal transit funding to move it to the ACE Train platform in 2017. On 10/11/2018, the Depot opened afresh as a passenger terminal after a 77-year haitus. The City maintains it as an historic structure with the transit authority as the tenant. See the 150-year-long story in "Depot" (Alan Frank, 2019). In 2020, the Livermore Depot received the 2019 Governor’s Historic Preservation Award.