Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition
Author: mook
Date: 04-21-2015 - 19:38

Thanks for confirming. After your comment I looked at the photo again and there is a spot where a rail seems to be cut off - a concrete pattern wouldn't do that. Must have been interesting to piece it together out of rail without the usual hardware - the joints are pretty tight.

A question semi-related to the original subject: where was WP's ferry dock? Looking at remnants of the line in Google (based on diagonal property boundaries showing where the line went through Potrero Hill - yes I do remember the fire that prompted finally filling in the tunnel - it looks like it might have turned east on 23rd Street. There's a concrete structure at the bay shore, but it looks more like a sewer outfall than a pier anchor. And there aren't any remnants of a diamond in the leftover Illinois St. rails at 23rd, and if there ever were tracks on 23rd they were cleaned out a long time ago. So I'm not sure.

Also - did the WP complex get used after the tunnel closure? Supposedly SP handled any remaining local switching for WP after that.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Sollon 04-20-2015 - 18:57
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition George Andrews 04-20-2015 - 21:04
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition mook 04-21-2015 - 16:43
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Sollon 04-21-2015 - 17:36
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Tom Bodet 04-21-2015 - 19:02
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition mook 04-21-2015 - 19:38
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition George Andrews 04-21-2015 - 20:01
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition WebDigger 04-21-2015 - 22:20
  WP Freight Slip Sollon 04-21-2015 - 22:44
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition mook 04-21-2015 - 22:53
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Sollon 04-21-2015 - 20:31
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Tom McCann 04-21-2015 - 23:18
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition HUTCH 7.62 04-23-2015 - 19:58
  Re: Western Pacific's San Francisco Terminus Demolition Sollon 04-23-2015 - 22:14


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