Re: Tri-X archives: ABL at Night
Author: KI6WDX
Date: 07-28-2013 - 19:22
No, that is not the Weyerhauser building in the background! To my best memory. Stokey-Van Camp had that metal warehouse building because just slightly west of the Weyerhauser plant, there was a switch allowing access to it's lone spur track as the Weyerhauser building was further back to the east and it's building was concrete with numerous windows facing Buena Vista Street and the switch being thrown lead up another switch to access one or both parallel loading tracks on the Buena Vista Street. There was a beanery/bar that the night crew for the ABL frequented since they was part their engine prior to the Del Monte switch. The Del Monte shipping warehouse had two more paralell track on it's rear including a tallow plant. Del Monte also had another shipping warehouse ajacent to the ABL yard and office that was accessed from the ABL yard and it was a metal building not visable from the Buena Vista street. Along Clement street, there was the US Steel paint can plant, a pole creosote plant as well as spur to the Inland ladder plant, Penzoil and others. SP merely picked up the outbound loads from ABL besides servicing those other customers in West Alameda including the Naval Air Station. Remember the Skippy peanut butter plant just before Webster Street? And the old Bethlehem Steel plant? And the numerous spurs leading along Clement Streeet into the yacht building yards that used wood for their projects?