Nostalgia & History > SP switcher Saturday

Photobobs Way Back Machine finds a couple of switchers in South San Francisco in 1959.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

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Very nice. A great reminder of when switchers, branches and rail served industries were everywhere!
JB

Well-crafted scene.
Bob

25 years gone.
Certainly overshadowed by more recent events.

Good old Butler road. Everything in the background is gone. Who needs steel anyway?

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Ran across a San Mateo County Historical webpage describing all the seperate functions going on in that area. Things like the wire rope Company, that takes a few steps away from basic metal stock material and where's the best place to do, next to the steel mill. There was a couple of furnaces back there, and on and on.

Another website describes building WWII merchant ships at the north end, not Liberty Ships but a later version.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Another website describes building WWII merchant
> ships at the north end, not Liberty Ships but a
> later version.

Victory Ships.