Thanks Mr. Meyers for that photo of the now gone line in today's news! Does anybody know when the line was converted to single track? And also, John Signor's excellent book on the SP's Western Division shows UP gaining trackage rights on SP's line on First st in the mid 90's. Obviously this became a moot point as of Sep 1996, but before this did UP use this SP trackage and just route some of their freights on 3rd st. or did it all go via the ex WP? Clearly they were still using the 3rd St. line until the end since the photo is dated to Nov of 1996.

As an aside, they are kind of poor images, but anyone interested in a rough idea of how West Oakland used to look should check out: [sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085]