In the 1880s, Southern Pacific Railroad took over the CPRR, extending it and creating a new ferry terminal building with the official station name Oakland Pier.

[1] In 1868 the Central Pacific Railroad acquired this pier and immediately began extending and improving it, renaming it the Oakland Long Wharf.

The CPRR floated freight to San Francisco starting in 1871; by then the Long Wharf reached out into the Bay 11,000 feet from Oakland Point to deep water.

On this solid fill, a large depot covered in corrugated iron and glass and lit by electric lighting was constructed in 1881,[6] creating the Oakland Pier or Mole, which opened for traffic on January 22, 1882.

A huge stained-glass window of the SP logo was placed on the western end of the train shed in 1929.

SP also contracted with other railroads, allowing them to utilize Oakland Pier as a passenger terminal and ferry transfer.

It was demolished in the 1960s to make way for an expansion of the growing container ship facilities of the Port of Oakland.

The only structure that remains of the Oakland Long Wharf is the SP Mole's switchman's tower, which was restored and moved to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.