Yup, that's exactly where it was. If you look at the area in satellite view, you can see where you could draw a straight line extending from Foothill through th

Yup, that's exactly where it was. If you look at the area in satellite view, you can see where you could draw a straight line extending from Foothill through the shopping center and behind the houses on Peninsular, and from there straight to the still-existing tracks south of 280 that serve the Permanente cement plant. I find it interesting that when they built the shopping center at Foothill and Homestead and the Springwood Apartments next door - which I assume was long after the railroad tracks were gone - they avoided building directly on top of the old right of way but kept it as a driveway through each parking lot. No idea why - contamination? Even more fun, look up the area in Google Earth (the desktop client, not the web-based "New" Earth), turn on View/Historical Imagery, and slide the timeline all the way back to 1948 when the railway ran through there. You can also see where it ran behind Fry's in Palo Alto. This 1948 photo covers a big chunk of the Peninsula and South Bay - it's really interesting to see how things looked back then and compare with later years. All those regular patterns of dots you see when you zoom out? Orchards!