Welcome! The Historic Kingsburg Southern Pacific Railroad Depot is a project of Friends of the Historic Kingsburg Depot ("Friends"), a non-profit California Corporation. Friends mission is to maintain and operate the Kingsburg Depot site as an educational facility to benefit children of the San Joaquin Valley; and to discover, preserve, and make known the history and importance of the 1872 San Joaquin Valley Line of the Central Pacific Railroad. A historically accurate rehabilitation of the Depot site was completed in 2016. The success of the project was the result of a federal grant, private donations by more than 1,600 people, and 17,000 hours of volunteer labor...
The Leon. S. Peters Education Center operating at the Depot hosts an average of 3,500 public, private, and home school student visitors per year. The Education Center benefits K-12 students in the Fresno, Kings, Madera and Tulare counties of California. Costumed actors playing roles of actual historic figures interact with students to bring history alive.
In addition, the Depot Freight House is a venue for public and private events hosting an average of 3,700 visitors per year on a first come, first served reservation basis. More than 45,000 visitors have attended events at the Depot since our grand opening. Please check the Contact page for more information.