Sacramento Valley Station, at 5th and I Streets, was designed by the San Francisco firm Bliss and Faville for the Southern Pacific Railroad and built in 1926 in the Renaissance Revival style. It stands on the site of China Slough.
It is the thirteenth-busiest Amtrak station in the country and the second busiest in the western United States, served by four Amtrak routes. It is also the western end of the Gold Line of Sacramento’s light rail.