REMEMBERING SAN FRANCISCO RAILROADING: SF BELT LINE AND NWP

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  @charlessmileyvideos · 2 years ago · pinned

  More SF Bay Area railroading Key System, Muni, SP, WP and more at <a href="http://www.cspmovies.com/">www.cspmovies.com</a>

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  @bendeleted9155 · 7 months ago

  Many thanks to whomever shot all these high-quality films back in the day. 💪🇺🇲👍

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  @petchris01 · 2 years ago

  Wow so many memories! Native San Franciscan here - raised in Tiburon, Marin County. Old enough to see the Belt Line in action along the piers as my father was a captain for States Steamship aka States Line. Experienced the steam trains passing by Bel Aire Elementary School in Tiburon until the diesels. The NWP tracks to the ferry port along with the turntable that had a roundhouse. Trestle Glen passing by Belveron East &amp; West with the then new Reedlands development just starting in the background. The Greenbrae trestle, the &nbsp;Hutchinson Rock Quarry in Larkspur later used in Dirty Hairy 1971, San Rafael, Mill Valley &amp; Sausalito. It’s all gone now except the physical markers. How many can you identify? Great job putting this together - all in color &amp; beautifully narrated. Thank you. Cheers!

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  @Waltkat · 2 years ago

  I was born in San Francisco in 1954 and can still remember being at a train station with my parents where there were steam locomotives. I don&apos;t remember much from back then but I&apos;ll never forget the sight and sounds of those steam behemothes. I also remember taking train rides from the Bay Area to Canada to go visit my grandparents. The sound of the trains wheels rolling on the tracks, mile after mile, will also stay in my memory. I sure do miss those days.

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  @tomharris1457 · 2 years ago

  I lived in mill Valley.We still had rail service to Mill Valley Lumber well into the 1960s. My dad took me on a special, last passenger train, to Tiburon from San Rafael. We used to go on the hill over the Tiburon roundhouse to see the engines. Still had steam units stored there.

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  @MarkInLA · 1 year ago (edited)

  Yikes ! Color AND sound !! What a treasure !! The high quality of the film is just hard to believe !

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  @pyrotechnick420 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m from Sausalito and I&apos;m a bit of a historian. The footage starting at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K91XFTTrpc&amp;t=1385">23:05</a> is amazing I have not been able to find much more than pictures from this era

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  @pacificcy3182 · 2 years ago

  I was born some ways south of this route (well after the line was gone). &nbsp;I primarily like British trains, but this has given me more appreciation for what exists in the US, especially since I’m not far off from the area shown.

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  @mikehawk2003 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K91XFTTrpc&amp;t=928">15:28</a> I love this scene, showing what Island Mountain used to look like. All of these buildings and the bridge were swept away at once during the great 1964 flood. The buildings were made out of retired interurban coaches. Thanks for posting.

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  @michael_loik · 2 years ago

  Wow, what a great video, thanks!

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  @tedmiles2110 · 2 years ago

  TheNWP/SP #10 went down to the Galveston Railroad Museum after retirement. Then in the early 2000s it was taken up to an SP Railroad Center outside Sacramentio. It will be interesting to see if this one locomotive museum can make a go of it! &nbsp;TM NWP Fan

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  @moorec1053 · 2 years ago

  I lived in SF until 5 years ago.<br>I saw SP switching cars on Harrison Street... late at night ... &nbsp;into the 1990s. WAY down Harrison near 20th there was some industry and a small cement factory.<br>Not only are the tracks gone, but so is all the industry 😞

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