Aerial view of the West Oakland Yards in December 2022
Under SP, the yards were home to a variety of railroad facilities, including a signal shop[1] and a creosoting plant.[2]
SP was said to "dominate" West Oakland with its "massive switching and maintenance yards, roundhouses, car assembly and repair shops, creosoting plant, and shipyards".[3]
west, oakland, yards, rail, yard, facility, west, oakland, oakland, california, united, states, formerly, major, facility, southern, pacific, railroad, yards, have, been, operated, union, pacific, railroad, since, 1996, aerial, view, december, 2022under, yards. The West Oakland Yards are a rail yard facility in West Oakland Oakland California in the United States Formerly a major facility for the Southern Pacific Railroad the yards have been operated by Union Pacific Railroad since 1996 Aerial view of the West Oakland Yards in December 2022Under SP the yards were home to a variety of railroad facilities including a signal shop 1 and a creosoting plant 2 SP was said to dominate West Oakland with its massive switching and maintenance yards roundhouses car assembly and repair shops creosoting plant and shipyards 3 37 49 05 N 122 17 53 W 37 818 N 122 298 W 37 818 122 298References edit Diversified Signal Shop on Southern Pacific The Signalman s Journal 40 11 324 326 November 1959 via Google Books Kelly R E January 1926 S P Constructs New Creosoting Plant Railway Review Monthly 3 9 via Google Books Self Robert O 2005 08 28 American Babylon Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland Princeton University Press p 49 ISBN 978 0 691 12486 5 nbsp This United States rail related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title West Oakland Yards amp oldid 1205149556, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
