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Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines
Author: WAF
Date: 07-16-2018 - 13:08

Tony Johnson Wrote:
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> It's a far cry from when I worked at Bethlehem
> Steel's SSF plant in 1966-1967. Southern Pacific
> FM switchers regularly came inside the plant. Next
> door Edwards Wire & Rope got service. The last
> stock car I saw loaded was a load of hogs for the
> slaughterhouse (Hormel?) in the industrial park
> behind Bethlehem Steel. Fuller Brush had a plaint
> plant there for decades. I managed to get videos
> of Espee switching some customers before they went
> away.

The various FMS trains out of Oakland would get messages to stop at SSF and a switcher would lift the hogs off the rear end. I believe those messages ended about 1968

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  Remainning Peninsula shippers? ron 07-13-2018 - 19:53
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? HUTCH 7.62 07-14-2018 - 09:45
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? JR 07-14-2018 - 11:42
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? Coaster 07-14-2018 - 11:44
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? Sal Cupertine 07-14-2018 - 12:02
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? sklinck1 07-14-2018 - 12:10
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? eddie 07-14-2018 - 12:29
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? ed 07-14-2018 - 16:25
  additional info Coaster 07-14-2018 - 13:49
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? Clem 07-15-2018 - 21:10
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? Railbaron 07-14-2018 - 15:07
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines BOB2 07-14-2018 - 16:14
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Tony Johnson 07-14-2018 - 22:39
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines sklinck1 07-14-2018 - 22:41
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Cprr 07-15-2018 - 11:24
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Bill Webb 07-15-2018 - 15:26
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Coaster 07-15-2018 - 22:09
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Tony Johnson 07-16-2018 - 08:21
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines WAF 07-16-2018 - 13:08
  Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines Bill Webb 07-16-2018 - 09:52
  Re: of Haulers, adn Locals, and Siwtching jobs....another "golden age".... BOB2 07-16-2018 - 12:54
  Re: of Haulers, adn Locals, and Siwtching jobs....another "golden age".... usmc1401 07-17-2018 - 17:50
  Re: of Haulers, adn Locals, and Siwtching jobs....another "golden age".... Carol L Voss 07-17-2018 - 20:44
  Re: of Haulers, and Locals, and Switching Jobs....Another "Golden Age".... Margaret (SP fan) 07-17-2018 - 21:27
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