Alameda Belt Line Alco S2 Recording

The Alameda Belt Line was a Oakland CA area short line co-owned by Western Pacific and Santa Fe Railway. This is a slide show highlighting a recording I made of ABL Alco S2 No. 105 back on April 17, 1985. It's 1:35 long.

[kurokuranoshin]

Awesome! That's the train I used to play in when I was a kid! It was at the end of one of the last tracks at the end of the yard sitting on top of cinder blocks and ties with no wheels until like 2012 when they totally fixed it and were full blown using it but then just a few months later the city paved over just a few feet of the main track on each end of the island in two places only over the width where it went over the main street just before an unloading ramp and the bridge and on theother end just over the first street on the way in from the other bridge, basically ensuring trains can't come in or out on either side cause they wanted it to appeal to yuppies, they did that and put in new street lamps and planter boxes on one street.. in doing that they stranded the newly rebuilt diesel and all the train cars on the island and put so many businesses and around 16 to 20 thousand of people out of work, and there was only like 50 k people living there so, thr city completely shit themselves in the face.

[bago]

I grew up in the Fruitvale district in East Oakland near the Fruitvale Bridge. I remember as a kid going over with my parents to the Flea Market near Webster in Alameda I remember the big Rail yard nect to the Market and would see gthe Alameda Belt line switching Rail cars. Last time I seen the Alameda belt line in service was like 1996 97 That area is so different now to the industrial area it used to be. I also used to work at the port of Oakland and remember a similar switch train called Oakland Terminal railway.

[bobmoyer]

I grew up in alameda California. Alameda is Alameda And Oakland is Oakland they are different cities. Although the men that own Alameda belt line also own Oakland belt line. I used to ride along with both the people that worked where real nice people

[troystaten]

Very cool, just a correction, Alameda is an incorporated city next to Oakland and not part of oakland. The old Alco sat out of service and was finally cut up for scrap when the beltline yard closed down in around 1998, at that time the Alameda Belt line was using a chop nosed GP9

[bobmoyer]

It’s to bad they cracked the block in that locomotive or they mite have used it on the Oakland belt line