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Station Plan for Centerville

Note Depot with Freight Room Expansion and Garden Area 

August 1929, Revised July 1940 

Southern Pacific Lines 


Niles Depot Historical Foundation Collection
Floor Plan - First Floor

Two Story Combination Depot No. 22

Southern Pacific Lines 1894 Drawing 


Oregon Historical Society, Southern Pacific Collection #1113
Floor Plan - 2nd Floor

Two Story Combination Depot No. 22

Southern Pacific Lines 1894 Drawing 


Oregon Historical Society, Southern Pacific Collection #1113
Floor Plan

One Story Combination Depot No. 23

Southern Pacific Lines 1895 Drawing 


Oregon Historical Society, Southern Pacific Collection #1113
M.W. 577: Depot Sign Boards, Location of

May 7, 1900


Southern Pacific Drawing
C.S. 17 Station Signs

October 1904


Southern Pacific Common Standard Drawing
C.S. 17: Station Signs - Close-up Detail of Sign

October 1904 


Southern Pacific Common Standard
Centerville Depot Restoration Plans
William G. Wullenjohn, Sr. Collection
Artwork for reproduction Western Union Telegraph & Cable Office sign 

Size 24 inches long, 12 inches high (excluding angle bracket) 

Original is enamel on steel, double sided 

Reproduction is laminated vinyl on 0.08 inch aluminum 

Reproductions of the Western Union and Wells Fargo signs (see below) can be purchased from Joe & Dorsi Diaz, Signs Now, 4299 Peralta Blvd., Fremont, CA, 94536; (510) 797-4467; Fax (510) 797-7564; dorsi@worldnet.att.net

Artwork for reproduction 1898 Wells Fargo & Co. Express sign.

Size 21 inches long, 21 inches high (excluding angle bracket) 

Original is enamel on steel, double sided 

Reproduction is laminated vinyl on 0.08 inch aluminum 

This "model 1898" sign is shown on the Centerville depot in photographs taken on July 4, 1911. The 1898 double face enamel office sign included the organization and incorporation dates. The 1888 version used the possessive form of the company name, "Co's." These were known as "call card" signs. The 1911 version of the double face enamel office sign, used the bookman font and deleted the organization and incorporation dates. The 1913 version of the sign used the bookman bold font and, like the 1911 version, omitted the organization and incorporation dates. Wells Fargo & Co. Express was merged into the newly formed American Railway Express in 1918. In 1929, American Railway Express became the Railway Express Agency.

Southern Pacific Company Standard P.S.B. 12

Standard Depot Signs 

December 11, 1899

Southern Pacific Lines
Common Standard
Drawing Number - C.S. 1319
Illumination of Station Signs
Adopted August 16, 1944