Pier 70 San Francisco

[DSchmitt]

Started building ships during Gold Rush

First steel ships constructed on Pacific Rim

Still a large ship repair facility.

http://www.pier70sf.org/

Not much railroad equipment shown, but 1973 USGS Map (Teraserver) shows extensive rail system serving various structures pictured on this Web site.

[Anonymous]

went and looked. Very nice posting.

[Anonymous]

Interesting TOC building and window detail. Thanks.

Randy

[Jetrock]

San Francisco had an industrial belt line that used to run along the Fisherman's Wharf area--it is gone now, except for a little track down by the marina end. The San Francisco historic trolleys run over that right-of-way, though.

[DSchmitt]

The "State Belt Railroad" there was a feature article with a trackplan in the April 1980 Model Railroader.


This web site has some photos:
http://users.snowcrest.net/photobob/statebelt.html

[Anonymous]

Here is a link to some maps of the State Belt RR as it was in 1926:
http://www.sanfranciscotrains.org/library.html