KI6WDX Wrote:
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> 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.

Could be. I've never heard of the metal building being called anything other than Weyerhaeuser, but that doesn't mean it wasn't. The main Weyerhaeuser building was indeed the one with the big windows, to the east of the metal one. It's now a housing development.

> 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.

I only remember them parking behind the bar/restaurant at the corner of Clement and Grand. It's had several names over the years, and is still there.

> 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?

SP also had access to at least some of the spurs on Clement Street, as I remember switching them; whatever the name of the warehouse was that's across Clement from where Paceco was, and the spurs going into the boatyards along the north side of Clement. They were switched by a Second Trick job out of East Oakland that also served SP's customers in West Alameda, the Naval Supply Center, and the Naval Air Station.