MILITARY RAILROAD OPERATIONS in SAN FRANCISCO
US MILITARY OPERATIONS on the State Belt
Troops being loaded onto a Pullman hospital car at Crissy Field (probably 1945)
US Navy Drydock Railroad
Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA
Small switching railroad that was standard gauge and steam and diesel powered. Operated about five miles of track and connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Organized in 1940.
|
No. |
Whyte |
Description |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
6 |
0-4-0ST |
Davenport, cn1599, Built 6/1917 |
Transfered from USN Mare Island Naval Shipyard #4. |
|
8 |
B-B |
GE, D/E, 45 ton, cn12933, Built 11/1940, #65-00404 |
Transferred from USN Bremerton Naval Yard #8. |
|
18 |
B-B |
GE, D/E, 50 ton, cn15291, Built 6/1942, #65-00420 |
New, and present April 1960. |
|
19 |
2-6-2T |
Baldwin, 65 ton, cn57013, Built 9/1923 |
Purchased from Coos Bay Lumber Co. #19, Marsfield, Ore.; orig. Clear Lake Lbr. Co. #7. Transferred as surplus to Richmond, Calif. 10/23/47, later sent to Stockton, Calif. for dispositon. |
|
? |
B-B |
Porter, D/E, 50 ton, cn7561, Built 6/1943 |
New |
|
? |
B |
Atlas, B/E, 25 ton, cn1280, Built 9/1945 |
Complete history not known, as 4wh steeple cab battery loco, with batteries in end hoods. Built for US Navy Supply Depot #1, Ft Mifflin, Pa.; to US Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. (here 8/29); to US Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif.; at Hunters Point at some period. For sale at a scrap yard in San Jose, Calif. 1962 |
|
? |
B-B |
Whitcomb, D/E, 80 ton, cn60637, Built 9/1945 |
Built for Navy Supply Depot, Bayonne, N.J. Trans. to Naval Amm. Depot, Bremerton, Wash.; to Naval Ship Yard,, Hunters Point. after WWII; then USN #65-00421; to Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, Calif. 6/72; sold 9/73 Simon & Sons, Tacoma, Wash. |
|
11 |
B-B |
Whitcomb, D/E, 80 ton, cn60681, Built 11/1945 |
Built for Naval Shipyard #11, Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif.; trans. to NSY #11, Hunters Point. Still here 10/65. To General Services Admin. for disposition. |
|
5377 |
B |
Battery Locomotive, USN E-9000 |
X |
Roster research by Allen Copeland