Anybody have any old stories, nostalgia, etc. about SP’s old bayshore yard in south san francisco? I noticed train orders. com has a couple photos of it but I don’t have a membership or a credit card…anybody know where there might be more photos of it available? When did the yard close? When were it’s last operations, etc.? More so, WHY did it close? Is the cross-bay trainbridge that crosses over the south bay near Redwood City still in operation? So many questions…
I think Bayshore is still there, but perhaps under a different name. It was basicly a commute operation for the Pennisula Line and was just south of 3rd and Townsend St. Station. Also handled freight for the South San Francisco “industries”, but that wasn’t much after the box car consolidators went out of business.
As far as I know, the Dumbarton Draw was rebuilt in the 1990’s and is still in operation.
Here are a couple of links you might find interesting, both from the same web site.
1956 Map:
http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/a_bayshore1956.jpg
http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/a_bayshore1956.jpg
Jim
nope, the dumbarton bridge is not in operation right now. they are thinking about reopening it for commute service from hayward though.
Brad
[:(] Unfortunately Bayshore yard is now nothing more than a field of weeds. In 1974 I took a photo from a SPcommute of a FM H-12-44 switching the yard.
The Dumbarton swing bridge is non operational. A rolling lift bridge will replace it as part of a 79mph commuter line connecting CalTrain on the Peninsula to the Capital Corridor, Altamont Commuter Express, Amtrak, and Bart in the East Bay.
I thought Bayshore was in Brisbane. Is this where it was?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.703276,-122.403188&spn=0.014591,0.022058&t=k&hl=en
Yep, that was/is SP’s Bayshore yards.
Jim