> Dr. Z I would guess that Del Monte had the ATSF run a spur into the plant when it was constructed and so that must explain the connection, given the lack of any joint drill.

Having been into the Del Monte plant and the PG&E Central Warehouse several times (from the Stanford Ave end), all I can say is that the AT&SF connection the USGS map is either mistake or had been removed because I don't recall it.

I don't know how the AT&SF operated, but I do know that on the SP, the customer built and owned it spur. The SP would build the connecting switch, but the customer was also responsible for maintenance to the spur. The WP, on the other hand, would build and maintain both the switch and the spur.

> At least a couple of the SP served industries located between San Leandro St. and the SP main line had WP spurs connecting to the industry's trackage, too.

This was a different arrangement called "reciprocal switching", in which both RRs serviced all the industry tracks between Melrose and 98th Ave along San Leandro Boulevard and the water side drill of the SP mains. Whenever a car was ordered out, either railroad could pull it, and if it was routed on the other RR, interchange was done at the Homestead end of WO Yard.