San Jose Diridon station in California during the 1930s was the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. The San Jose Diridon station is planned as a future stop on the California High-Speed Rail line and Phase 2 of VTA's Silicon Valley San Jose BART extension in Santa Clara County. The high-speed rail track and platform locations have not been determined yet. The BART station will be called Diridon and planned to be a subway station adjacent to the train station and Santa Clara Street. It will be located between the Santa Clara and Downtown San Jose BART stations with direct service to Santa Clara, San
Almaden Valley, San Jose Almaden Valley, San Jose Almaden Valley, or simply Almaden is a valley and primarily upper middle class residential neighborhood of San Jose, California, in South San Jose. It is named after the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines, which were named after the mercury mine in (old) Almadén, Spain, and produced mercury that was used to process ore during the Gold Rush. Like its Spanish namesake, California's Almaden had a number of quicksilver mines. The mercury was used during gold extraction in the California Gold Rush, but the mines were closed in 1975 and have been converted into Almaden Quicksilver County Park.