The State Belt Visitors

The State Belt RR has hosted many railroads and special trains over the years. Here are just a few:

• 194x US ARMY (Fort Mason / Presideo operations / WWII)
• 1948 (March 14) Freedom Train visits SF
• 19xx Virginia and Truckee's J.W. Bowker
• 1949 California Zephyr
• 19xx ATSF San Francisco Chief (with Hi-Levels)
• 1971-2 The Flying Scotsman
• 1975 (Dec 10-13) The Freedom Train
• 1976 Bicentenial Locomotive Display (AT&SF,SP, WP) - See picture below
• 1976 (July 4) WP 1776 & 1976 on the State Belt
• 1977 (March) BCR #2860 Royal Hudson (and train) visit San Francisco's State Belt
• 1982 AMTRAK FAMILY DAYS - CALTRAIN & AMTRAK Display - May 1982 - See picture below
• 1987 San Francisco Rail Fair - Steam / Diesel / and Trolley visitors
• 1987 San Francisco Trolley Festival - two 4-wheel trolleys operate on the SBRR with generators in tow!
• 2000 MUNI's F-Line replaced the State Belt - Restored PCCs return to SF!

"Amtrak Family Days" was held May 14 and 15, 1982 in San Francisco by the State Belt Roundhouse. Attending for Caltrain was freshly painted 3187, along with gallery cars 3701 and 3702. Amtrak display had F40 245, along with nine cars.

Notes Dec 1975 - The AFT displays on the Presidio military reservation near Golden Gate Park. The locomotive is spotted near the base of Hyde St. in the shadow of Ghiradelli Square. This is the furthest point "West" the train ever displays.

References

 Railroad Magazine, May 1973, Pg 12, 28
 The Flying Scotsman being hoisted aboard the vessel California Star at Oakland, CA 
 for a voyage to Liverpool,  England.

 Railroad Magazine, June 1973, PG 17
 Western Pacific's Las Plumas (a powered car ferry), on Aug 12 1972, holding The Flying Scotsman 
 and the entire train crossing SF Bay. She was on her way to shipped back to England.

 Railroad Magazine, April 1978, PG 28, 58
 Photo of San Francisco Belt Railroad Alco #25 pulling the famed LNER # 4472 at Pier 41 on April 7, 1972.

 "The Flying Scotsman was in town in either 1971 or '72 ..."
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