This photo is from a rainy February afternoon at the 
      Castro Valley station in Alameda County.  
      This train has originated one stop further 
      east, at Dublin/ Pleasanton.  It's only a single station away, but it's quite a run.  The  
      distance between the two stops is about ten miles, surely the longest 
      ride between stations on any U.S. urban rail system.   
			 
			But the gap is being lessened.  A new West Dublin/Pleasanton 
			station is under construction, another one of those 
			latter-day public private partnerships.   
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