Western Railroad Discussion > Freight At Bayshore In 2017

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/18 14:19 by phthithu.

Hmmm. When I worked there, Schlage was over to the right at 3rd and Sunnydale, quite a ways out of your picture. Did "they" move Schlage's building closer to the main lines and further north before it got torn it down?

Well I don't because it was a huge building, unless of course they moved into smaller quarters built closer to the Bay.

My guess is that the Darling plant collects oils, greases, and fats from area restaurants and stores with butchers and processes them.
https://www.darlingii.com/solutions/restaurant-supermarket/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/17 00:17 by EricSP.

phthithu Wrote:
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Now I am curious...where does the "clean" dirt come from?



> The big business in San Francisco these days, well
> after tech companies and the real estate business
> and tourism, is construction. Most of the cars
> handled by the YSF70 South City Switcher have
> something to do with this. There is the odd reefer
> of meat, which I have read is down this year on
> top of the team track at South San Francisco being
> closed and put up for sale, but mostly you have
> dirty dirt removed from construction sites,
> aggregate, and then lumber. The other customers
> are recycling-related--an occasional car is
> spotted at the recycling center's spur to be
> loaded with cut up recycling bins bound for
> another recycler of steel somewhere. And then
> there is a tallow plant but I'm not sure where
> they get their raw materials from. The scene seen
> here features the Dumps lead and Bayshore Caltrain
> Station and the old site of the Bayshore yard and
> the South City Switcher in the middle of switching
> out Golden State Lumber. The dirt in the
> foreground is clean dirt that has been put on the
> site of an old SP customer, the Schlage Lock
> Company. A massive retaining wall along the
> Caltrain ROW holds this dirt in place. Don't know
> what they're building here, but this view will
> surely be gone when they are done.

>the South City Switcher in the middle of switching out Golden State Lumber.

Took a closer look at your pic, and the switcher isn't doing much of anything because it isn't on the correct track to enter the dumps lead.

A massive retaining wall along the
> > Caltrain ROW holds this dirt in place. Don't
> know
> > what they're building here, but this view will
> > surely be gone when they are done.

The wall has more to do with holding this building's foundations in place.

Where is this tallow plant?

3rd street is behind the photographer and Cow Palace to his right. The lock factory was leveled to make way for more housing.

It is at 429 Amador Street.
https://goo.gl/maps/Q9F9hVR4cyT2
https://www.darpro-solutions.com/locations/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/17 20:05 by EricSP.

>3rd street is behind the photographer and Cow Palace to his right.

3rd St is also to the photographer's right.

Just to the left of the bend in 3rd St at Burke, on the ocean side there used to be a slaughterhouse.