Re: WP Oakland roundhouse - where?
Author: Henry Miller
Date: 12-20-2009 - 14:14
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Dragoman Wrote:
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> > For the benefit of some of us (only-slightly)
> > younger Old Farts -- where was the WP
> roundhouse?
>
> It was located west of where Aleline Street and
> Middle Harbor Road intersect, west of the
> Schnitzer Steel property. The roundhouse faced
> west.
Please correct that street name to ADELINE. Thank You.
Henry
>
> > Any remnants left?
>
> Not really. The remains were torn down after WP
> moved locomotive servicing down into the Oakland
> Yard, west of where the new yard office was (that
> building is still there but was sold off several
> years ago). The area was then paved over, new
> tracks installed, and used as a Chrysler unloading
> facility. Then a few years ago those tracks were
> removed and the area repaved for container
> storage.
>
> After the roundhouse was closed the balloon track
> that ran next to it was used to turn locomotives.
> Eventually most of the balloon was removed and the
> remaining portion used for the west leg and tail
> of the current wye. This wye is the only WP
> trackage remaining in Oakland west of the end of
> the old WP First Sub (now UP's Oakland Sub) that
> ends just west of 50th Avenue in East Oakland.