Can someone send this link to Bob C. at nwprr.net or just post this over there?
Here's some clippings concerning the near-establishment of a major customer for the NWP in Corte Madera/Tiburon: a major ammunition depot at California Point. It was begun with haste in the spring of 1945. The army was going to build a huge railyard storage depot up in Ignacio WEST of 101 where they would store ammunition that would be loaded onto ships in Tiburon, accessed via a spur off of the NWP main at San Clemente (Corte Madera, near tunnel #2 north portal).
Worker housing was begun around the Tiburon trestle. The ROW was graded along the shore to California Point and work had progressed to the point of ties being laid when the surrender of Japan led to the abandonment of the project.
Marin was completely against the ammunition depot and there was a major effort to torpedo it, but it was really only the atom bomb that prevented southern Marin from becoming a military base, and thus the NWP lost a major customer.