Re: HERCULES POWER PLANT CALIF ..INDUSTRIAL TRACKAGE ?
Author: Juppo
Date: 07-02-2011 - 23:55
The Montezuma Yardmaster Wrote:
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> This is amazing to hear about. I have lived in
> Contra Costa County all my life and have never
> heard of this narrow gauge railroad. I certainly
> could have seen it when I was young if someone had
> taken me to see it. What would it have hauled?
> Certainly would not have been some mineral out of
> the hills.
It primarily hauled the various compounds and chemicals used in the manufacture of dynamite from storage sites out in Refugio Valley and out towards Franklin Canyon to the plant in Hercules and then hauled waste products back.