belt line

[Enzo Fortuna]

>Hello there...Nobody in Frisco will answer??

..... As "old" sentence" says.....

"May you boil in oil/ and fry in Crisco,/ If you ever call San Francisco "Frisco"

Cheers

Enzo Fortuna

 http://xoomer.alice.it/enzo_fortuna/Home.htm

[andrechapelon]

Bill Kaufman wrote an excellent article on the State Belt RR (renamed the San Francisco Belt in 1969 when the city and county took over the RR) in the April, 2007 Railroad Model Craftsman. This included a description of his roughly 12'X13' HO layout based on the line. Service on the State Belt ended in 1993, according to Bill's article, when Kyle Railways' contract to operate the line ended.

[I don't live in San Francisco, but apparently the locals don't like it when the city is called "frisco" ... go figure.]

Byron
Model RR Blog

Probably because some wag would call BART "Frisco Area Rapid Transit".

SF denizens simply refer to San Francisco as "The City".

Andre

[peterjenkinson1956]

i have seen photos of the flying scotsman at fishermans wharf   would be good to see some video of it...  peter

[ndbprr]

Is that the stretch that Alan Peglar ran the Flying Scotsman from England and went belly up?

[CFournier]

Any idea on how to represent San Francisco on a back drop behind the SFBelt RR ?

Any sources on the internet for pics of older San Francisco buildings that I could print and use as flats or background ?

Chris

[rfross]

Back in 1980 I lived in an apartment in San Francisco on North Pointe Street near Fisherman's Wharf. Tracks ran down the middle of North Pointe street and every once in a while a switcher went by with a cylindrical hopper or two. I don't recall what industry they serviced, though.

But what I do remember the most about it is that tracks embedded in a concrete street reverberate through a building with a concrete foundation when a locomotive and cars go by. Ordinarily watching a train go by right outside my window wouldn't be a bad thing. But back then I was in my mid-twenties and I frequently hit my friendly neighborhood bar. Closing out the bar and having a train come through in the early morning hours is not a good combination!

[peterjenkinson1956]

thanks for the reply fellas   i did some research and found out that the line was closed...

i checked out google maps and i was able to locate the  old round house   you can still see the roundhouse but not much else

[cuyama]

I think there was a plan for a layout that was published in MRR way back...anybody knows in what year and month of MRR?

That would be April, 1980, as noted in the original post.

[cuyama]

Bill Kaufman wrote an excellent article on the State Belt RR (renamed the San Francisco Belt in 1969 when the city and county took over the RR) in the April, 2007 Railroad Model Craftsman. This included a description of his roughly 12'X13' HO layout based on the line. Service on the State Belt ended in 1993, according to Bill's article, when Kyle Railways' contract to operate the line ended.

[I don't live in San Francisco, but apparently the locals don't like it when the city is called "frisco" ... go figure.]

Byron
Model RR Blog

[joseph2]

I believe there was an article on it in RMC a year or two ago.

[CFournier]

Hi,

 I think there was a plan for a layout that was published in MRR way back...anybody knows in what year and month of MRR?

Chris

[desertdog]

I am not in San Francisco, but to answer your question, the line was abandoned in 1993. 

John Timm

[CFournier]

Hello there...

Nobody in Frisco will answer??

BTW Atlas has a new SFbeltRR Black Alco S-2 out but it is impossible for my LHS to get one ...

Chris

[peterjenkinson1956]

back in april 1980    the  model railroader had an article regarding the ...   san francisco belt line rr     this line ran along the water front to the presidio...  does any of this line remain in service  if no longer in use when did it close down   peter