The Waterfront -- the neighborhood near the station was
a "rough-and-tumble neighborhood with all-night hash
houses, illegal poker games in back rooms, typical railroad
hotels and rooming houses, and carryalls from the Vendome,
St. James, and the then new Montgomery hotels that met the
passenger trains."
-- Patricia Loomis,
"Signposts II"
Robert's
model railroad pages are now here.
I'll redirect you in a couple of seconds.