SOUTHERN PACIFIC:
Mission Bay Roundhouse
Mission Bay Yard
Women at Mission Bay Roundhouse, 1943
Bayshore Roundhouse
7th Street Diesel Shops
San Francisco Turntables
Bayshore Turntable Plans
Third & Townsend Depot
Miscellaneous SP Photos, below
Tunnel One Mystery Signal
Local Passenger Service, 1900-28
Map: 16th & Harrison Eng. Term, 1899 Sanborn
Map: Mission Bay / 3rd Street Depot, 1956
Map: Bayshore, 1956
Map: SF & Peninsula, 1908

THE FREEDOM TRAIN:
Freedom Train in SF

STATE / SF BELT RR: BELOW




SP Index



State Belt RR of California / San Francisco Belt RR



Alco S-2 #25 switches the Freedom Train on December 13, 1975.


The State Belt roundhouse in early 1965: Note that there is no turntable. Although the tracks have been gone for many years, the structure still exists today (2003) as a somewhat bizarre office building. That's Alco S-2 #24 peaking around the side, and across the Embarcadero to its left stands the waterfront piers that it served.


Miscellaneous SP Photos



new 10-22-03 SP S-11 #1227 waits for traffic to pass before entering the eastbound main off of the 300 lead at the west (north) end of Tunnel #3 (behind the photographer. From 1941-54, the Newcomb Avenue commute stop lay just outside of the tunnel mouth. The last of the once-extensive industrial trackage (located at a formere WW II Army base, Army Streets" namesake) behind the 1227 was pulled up in 2003. Photo by George Solimine, Sr., mid-1950's.