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Paid a visit to the Port of Oakland and caught the chicken job working Schnitzer Steel. On the yard channel got word that a work train with a San Luis crew was due in 25 minutes. Just barely caught them but flubbed the focus as they came up the square.Got this going away shot of the tank car on the back of the train. 

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Guess there is mesh on the ped bridge to prevent getting photos from there.
Regards Jim Evans

FiveChime Wrote:
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> Guess there is mesh on the ped bridge to prevent
> getting photos from there.
> Regards Jim Evans

LOL. Yeah. Durn photographers. You can climb up on the hand railing and shot through a gap at the top or just shoot through the mesh depending on your setup. No one's cut a hole in the mesh there like they have elsewhere. Or maybe it just gets fixed? 

In the SP days, the West Oakland yardmaster would sometimes refer to a track called "Chicken Charlie."  I wonder if that place is related to the "Chicken Job" nicely photographed here.

FiveChime Wrote:

> Guess there is mesh on the ped bridge to prevent getting photos from there.

It's just regular-sized chain link, small enough to keep people from throwing large objects onto the people and traffic below, but big enough that a cell phone camera or a small lens can fit through easily.  Back in the film days, I shot through it with a Pentax K1000 fitted with the stock 50mm lens with no problem:

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Bowknot Wrote:
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> In the SP days, the West Oakland yardmaster would
> sometimes refer to a track called "Chicken
> Charlie."  I wonder if that place is related to
> the "Chicken Job" nicely photographed here.

Bowknot, That issue came up recently in a thread about an upcoming realignment of the 7th St. automobile underpasses of the UP. I believe research on TO led to use deciding that Chicken Charlie was the reefer transload warehouse located at Bay St. just north of 7th St. This warehouse was only just recently torn down in advance of that 7th St. relignment project.  

Here's the detailed thread: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5929922,5930286#msg-5930286

It’s nice to see you’re out again taking night photos. I’m looking forward to seeing more. - Eric B



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/24 22:53 by AlcoRSD15.

AlcoRSD15 Wrote:
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> It’s nice to see you’re out again taking night
> photos. I’m looking forward to seeing more. -
> Eric B

Thanks Eric! I was thinking about your thread on this job from a year or so ago the other day. It's a neat addition to railfanning Oakland at a very reasonable hour and this time of year seems to offer some great opportunities for practicing the night shot technique. 

Chicken Job?

What the train symbol for this one?

MikeRail

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MikeRail Wrote:
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> Chicken Job?
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> What the train symbol for this one?
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> MikeRail
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> Posted from Android

They are called "Chicken" on the radio by the yardmaster so I call it the chicken job. Not sure the symbol.