MILITARY RAILROAD OPERATIONS in SAN FRANCISCO
A number of military bases in San Francisco hosted rail operations in years past. Most also rostered their own motive power ranging from small industrial steam locomotives, small diesel electrics and even to a few with large eight-wheel switch engines. Bases with motive power included:- Crissy Army Air Field
- Fort Mason
- Presidio of San Francisco
- US Navy Drydock Railroad, Hunters Point
Crissy Army Air Field
Former air strip located next to the bay in the Presidio of San Francisco. A few hanger building remain is all.
No. |
Whyte |
Description |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
5000 |
0-6-0T |
Porter, cn7460, Built 8/1942 |
Sold, Hyman-Michaels (D), Los Angeles, CA |
Roster research by Bob Lehmuth
Fort Mason
Major dock and warehouse operation. Many of the wharf spurs remain today in the pavement.
No. |
Whyte |
Description |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
USA |
B-B |
GE, cn13165, Built 10/1941, 45 ton, |
Built for Quartermaster Corps - USA #4546 |
USA |
B-B |
GE, cn13166, Built 10/1941, 45 ton, |
Built for Quartermaster Corps - USA #4547 |
USA |
B-B |
GE, cn13167, Built 11/1941, 45 ton, |
Built for Quartermaster Corps - USA #4548 |
USA |
B-B |
Baldwin, cn67738, Built 7/1943, VO1000 |
Arnold Army Air Force Engineering Center, #7467, Tullahoma, TN |
USA |
B |
Whitcomb, cn13179, Built 3/1940, 20 ton |
Built for Quartermaster Corps - USA #2022 |
USA |
B |
Whitcomb, cn13185, Built 9/1940, 20 ton |
Built for Quartermaster Corps - USA #2029 |
Roster research by Bob Lehmuth, Allen Copeland, John Goldie
Presidio of San Francisco
Large base with several warehouses connected to spur lines from the State Belt.
No. |
Whyte |
Description |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
V-1800 |
B-B |
Baldwin, cn71740, Built 4/1945 |
US Army #V1800, Oakland CA |
7453 |
B-B |
Baldwin, cn64407, Built 6/1942 |
Ft Wingate Ammunition Depot #7453, Ft Wingate NM |
7461 |
B-B |
Baldwin, cn64436, Built 11/1942 |
Umatilla Ordnance Depot #7461, Hermiston OR |
Roster research by Bob Lehmuth
US Navy Drydock Railroad
Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA
Small switching railroad that was standard gauge and steam and diesel powered. Operated about five miles of track and connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Organized in 1940.
No. |
Whyte |
Description |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
6 |
0-4-0ST |
Davenport, cn1599, Built 6/1917 |
Transfered from USN Mare Island Naval Shipyard #4. |
8 |
B-B |
GE, D/E, 45 ton, cn12933, Built 11/1940, #65-00404 |
Transferred from USN Bremerton Naval Yard #8. |
18 |
B-B |
GE, D/E, 50 ton, cn15291, Built 6/1942, #65-00420 |
New, and present April 1960. |
19 |
2-6-2T |
Baldwin, 65 ton, cn57013, Built 9/1923 |
Purchased from Coos Bay Lumber Co. #19, Marsfield, Ore.; orig. Clear Lake Lbr. Co. #7. Transferred as surplus to Richmond, Calif. 10/23/47, later sent to Stockton, Calif. for dispositon. |
? |
B-B |
Porter, D/E, 50 ton, cn7561, Built 6/1943 |
New |
? |
B |
Atlas, B/E, 25 ton, cn1280, Built 9/1945 |
Complete history not known, as 4wh steeple cab battery loco, with batteries in end hoods. Built for US Navy Supply Depot #1, Ft Mifflin, Pa.; to US Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. (here 8/29); to US Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif.; at Hunters Point at some period. For sale at a scrap yard in San Jose, Calif. 1962 |
? |
B-B |
Whitcomb, D/E, 80 ton, cn60637, Built 9/1945 |
Built for Navy Supply Depot, Bayonne, N.J. Trans. to Naval Amm. Depot, Bremerton, Wash.; to Naval Ship Yard,, Hunters Point. after WWII; then USN #65-00421; to Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, Calif. 6/72; sold 9/73 Simon & Sons, Tacoma, Wash. |
11 |
B-B |
Whitcomb, D/E, 80 ton, cn60681, Built 11/1945 |
Built for Naval Shipyard #11, Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif.; trans. to NSY #11, Hunters Point. Still here 10/65. To General Services Admin. for disposition. |
5377 |
B |
Battery Locomotive, USN E-9000 |
X |
US NAVY Roster research by Allen Copeland
US MILITARY OPERATIONS on the State Belt
Troops being loaded onto a Pullman hospital car at Crissy Field (probably 1945)