TMer Wrote:
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> Dr. the map confirms what you're saying. I
> mentioned the map just because it has ATSF-only
> and SP-ATSF track marked on it, and marked well,
> in my opinion.
>
> Happened to find a picture of 26th and Wood St.
> crossbuck marked "Joint SP-ATSF" from 1940s.
> Interesting. And next to it was a large manually
> operated signal about 16 feet tall.
>
> But this is sort of offtopic. The bottom line is,
> from about 1965 onward did the SP switch the lead
> that crossed Wood and went down 26th St. and down
> to Pac Pipe?

Yes. The lead was mostly street trackage and ran east on 26th Street from the Wood Street Yard, turned south on Kirkham Street, and ended at Pacific Pipe which was on the south side of West Grand Avenue.

SP yard jobs came from Emeryville Yard (or from the Desert or the Glass House, and briefly from East Oakland Yard, after the jobs at Emeryville were abolished).

Santa Fe locals came from their Richmond Yard, either their regular Oakland Local or Extra Oakland Locals.

Part of the old Pacific Pipe property is now a gym.

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