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West bound LCL arrived in the Bay Area from the east and
southern California in through cars for Oakland or San Francisco with 3-5 cars
scheduled to Oakland and 18-21 cars scheduled to San Francisco daily. 10 of those SF cars came from Corwith in
Chicago. Cars arriving Barstow on
schedule 31 had a connection with schedule 43 to Richmond. Other cars may have been placed on the NCX or
EFX depending on when they arrived Barstow.
I’ll have to dig deeper into the schedules. Richmond was the terminus for the Stockton
West Way Peddler car that served the Third District via Freight Schedule 83 or
an extra west. One car a day arrived
from Fresno on schedule 43. Richmond
originated 2 cars, one each for Oakland and San Francisco. They may have used the inbound Fresno car for
the Oakland load as it had freight for Oakland as well, but it was not carded
as a through car. The Fresno car for SF
went directly to the car float and on to SF without trans loading at Richmond. The Richmond-SF car also carried freight for
the NWP, WP north of Oroville, points in Oregon and Washington, and points via
Chicago. A drum of chemicals from Dow in
Pittsburg destined to Delaware would have begun its journey with a round trip
to San Francisco in a box car by barge.
Eastbound, 5 cars moved through Richmond from Oakland or San
Francisco and were entrained on the SCX without stopping at the Freight House
each day except Sunday, with an additional car from San Francisco carded
directly to the Erie in Chicago three days a week. Oak-3 picked up freight for Bakersfield, Oak-4,
Fresno, SF-1-Kansas City; SF-2-Albuquerque; SF-3-San Diego; SF-4-Los Angeles; SF-8-Stockton;
SF-9-Merced; SF-10-Modesto each day. Inbound
Oakland cars 1, 2 and 5 were consolidated with the SF cars. SF-12-Fresno Perishable,
operated Mon-Wed-Thurs; SF-13-Merced
perishable, operated on Monday. These
cars were also scheduled out on the SCX which left Richmond nightly at 9
PM.
SF-5-"San Pablo & East", peddled via barge at
Alice Street, offloaded SF traffic for Richmond to Oakland and continued east
on 84 as a peddler car. SF-7-Pittsburg,
took freight for the Sacramento Northern to the interchange at Port
Chicago. It also departed on 84.
In any case, loading at the Freight House had to cease early
enough for the cars to be switched into their outbound trains, probably and
hour or two prior to the scheduled departure.
Quite a few years ago, before Russell Crump passed, I
downloaded a copy of Santa Fe System Circular 231, Red Ball Freight Schedules
1942-44 from his ATSFRY website. I
formatted the information pertinent to the Valley division into a time table
like spread sheet. Little did I know
then, that this information derived from Keith Jordan’s Circular 235 LCL
Schedules http://www.atsfrr.org/resources/KJordan/LCL1946.pdf
would dovetail with something I’ve had for ten years or so.
This is only a portion of the schedule for the Valley, but
has the through connections. Keep in
mind that this is a service schedule only and conveys no authority to occupy a
main track. That would have been done by
operating these schedules as either an extra train via train orders, or using
one of the second class freight schedules, all westward trains in my 1944 modeling
year. Thanks to Russell and Keith, with
some good guidance from Steve Sandifer, I now can accurately replicate the
Freight House and LCL operations at Richmond.
As an added bonus, this gives me a steady source of barge traffic for my
car float operation.
John Barry
Cameron Park, CA
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