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.
For sale 1/47 via War Assets Admin., Stockton General Depot, Calif.

8

B-B

GE, D/E, 45 ton, cn12933, Built 11/1940, #65-00404

Transferred from USN Bremerton Naval Yard #8.
Transferred to USN Torrance Naval Storage Depot, Torrance, Calif. #L-2; Assigned USN #65-00404 ca. 1949-50

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