Bayshore Yard Shops (site) (Brisbane, California)

USA / California / Brisbane / Brisbane, California
 place with historical importance, railroad yard
Site of the former Southern Pacific Railroad Bayshore Yard Shops. The rail yard and shops operated from 1918 until the early '80s.

The Bayshore shops were responsible for the maintenance of all of the locomotives assigned to the Southern Pacific's Coast Division which stretched south to Santa Barbara. By 1952, this was 133 steam engines, but by 1954, diesel-electric locomotives had become common enough that the Bayshore steam shops were closed. The roundhouse continued to service diesel locomotives, but the decline of industry and shipping in San Francisco and along the peninsula led to the closure of the yards in the early 1980s.



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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayshore_(Caltrain_station)
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Coordinates:   37°42'17"N   122°24'19"W
This article was last modified 3 years ago