The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-14

Work on the Dumbarton bridge and
at Visitacion Bay, where the new
freight yard Of the Southern Pacific
will be located. is being pushed vigor-
ously. When the yard is ready it viii
be among the best equipped in the
country.
Some years ago the Southern Pacific
purchased Visitation Cove outright and
the corporation has been engaged in
filing IT in with the earth that was
taken from the FIVE tunnels OF the Bay
Shore Cut-On through the Mission hills.
Visitation Cove was IN the form of a
semicircle end continued about 200
mud lifted by electric dredges in sddi-
ton to the earth from The tunnels. AS
soon as the new cut-of is built the
yard, repair shops and roundhouses will
be removed 10 this point and all freight
trains will be made up and coaches
cleaned there. and a new and thriving
city will be brought into existence. IT
is some six miles from this city, and
land in the vicinity of the proposed
yard is being held at premium al
ready.
when the bridge at Dumbarton
Point is completed Visitscion Bay will
have added Importance from the fact
that trains the runs of which ended
formerly in o. kland. will cross the
bay by the bridge instead Of the ferry.
There viii be fifty miles Of siding in
the yard, which is TO be about S4o0 feet
long. from the limits on the south TO
the portal OF the large tunnel on the
north. The yard space is 1900 feet
wide from the seawall. at the main
tracks OF the Bay Shore Cut-On. to the
company's property line on the west.
The main tracks are about eight and
a half feet above ordinary high tide.
The main freight space is laid out for
thirty-eight tracks. At the south end,
Just west of the main tracks, are seven
tracks, with a capacity of fifty cars
each. for the southboun6 dispatching
yard, and the same number Of tracks
for the northbound dispatching yard.
Further north are fourteen storage
tracks, with a total capacity Of 472
cars. At the north end Of the yard are
eighteen classification tracks.
Work is being done on the pile foun-
dations for the shops and other build
ings in the yard. All are to have con-
crete foundations on piles, with brick
and steel superstructures. There will
be q power house from which steam
pipes are run for 5se on the locomo-
tivee, but there IS TO be no steam heat
in the buildings. Near the south end
of the yard is a coal bunker 600 feet
long Five hundred feet north Of this
and extending northward are the fo1-
lowing buildings: A forty-stall roune-
house. the center of which is 1850 feet
west Of the main track Of the Bay
Shore cut-Off; the power house, 31,3x
s7.s feet; Office and storehouse. 50x120
feet; machine shop and erecting shop,
25Sxz37-6 feet, one-half to be built at
once and the remainder later. Eighty
feet south of the machine shop is a
transfer pit, 7ox4S1 feet. Space is also
reserved north of the machine shop and
erecting shop for another transfer
table. Other structures are carDen-
ter shop, z5xl50 feet. and a car repair
shop. 185x2TQ feet. with an adjoining
planning mill. a part OF which, 62.6x1S5
feet, will be built now and q large ex-
tension later. A freight car shed ll0x
$50 feet, equipped with a twenty ton
travelling crane, is the last building
st the north end Of the yard. In con-