Friday 24 November 1944

Twentieth AF XXI bomber command flies its first mission against Japan from the Marianas with 111 B-29s.

The following tank cars loaded with Cumene arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

UTLX	73026
UTLX	73871
UTLX	74111

The following tank cars loaded with Gasoline arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

UTLX	28700
UTLX	36323
UTLX	71080

SP returns the following empties to ATSF

UTLX	17225	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	32501	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	38293	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	38460	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	38644	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	78047	LC GASOLINE
UTLX	7286	LC CUMENE
UTLX	22086	LC CUMENE
UTLX	77291	LC CUMENE

  

John Barry

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA 

Thursday 23 November 1944

81 Fifteenth AF B-24s strike bridges at Zenica Brod and Doboj.  13 heavy bombers drop supplies at points in Yugoslavia.

US 7th army under General Patch conquers Straasburg

SP returns the following empty to ATSF

OELX

3004

LC CUMENE

 Happy Thanksgiving

John Barry

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA 

Wednesday 22 November 1944

205 Fifteenth AF heavy bombers strike marshalling yards at Munich while 214 strike alternates due to heavy weather.

The following tank car loaded with Cumene arrives at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

RPX

3502

The following tank cars loaded with Gasoline arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

UTLX	37805
UTLX	75850
UTLX	77653

SP returns the following empties to ATSF

UTLX	77379	LC CUMENE
WEOX	238	LC CUMENE
UTLX	6996	LC CUMENE
UTLX	17396	LC CUMENE
UTLX	30449	LC CUMENE
UTLX	32577	LC CUMENE
UTLX	35652	LC CUMENE
UTLX	43900	LC CUMENE

Tuesday 21 November 1944

1100 Eighth AF heavy bombers strike synthetic oil plant at Merseburg/Leuna and 2 oil refineries at Hamburg.

The following tank cars loaded with Cumene arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

OELX	3004
UTLX	7286
UTLX	22086
UTLX	77291

The following tank cars loaded with Gasoline arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

UTLX	17225
UTLX	32501
UTLX	38293
UTLX	38460
UTLX	38644
UTLX	78047

The following tank car loaded with Ethyl Motor Fuel additive arrives at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe from North Baton Rouge LA for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

EBAX

623

SP returns the following empties to ATSF

UTLX	48627 LC Cumene

John Barry

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA 

Monday, 20 November 1944

1st Japanese Kaiten suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)

The following tank cars loaded with Cumene arrive at Port Chicago on the Santa Fe for interchange to the SP and the Tidewater refinery at Avon, CA

UTLX	48627
UTLX	77379
WEOX	238
UTLX	6996
UTLX	17396
UTLX	30449
UTLX	32577
UTLX	35652
UTLX	43900

John Barry

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA

1948 San Francisco Industries Map

Pete Hall won a copy of the 1948 SP San Francisco Industry Map several months ago.  He was gracious to share reproductions of his win and I picked up my copy from him at the Chicagoland RPM in October.  Here is an image of a small portion of the map that contains ATSF’s China Basin:

You can contact Pete directly at petehall6369@gmail.com to purchase a copy for your personal use.  I highly recommend doing so if you model California in the transition era. 

I have also created an Excel version of the Index from the map.  Here’s a portion of that:

INDEX	INDUSTRY	RAILROAD
47		SP
48		SP
49	J. A. ROEBLING CO.	SP-ATSF
50	FAY IMPROVEMENT CO.	SP-ATSF
50A	BRAUN-KNECHT-HEIMANN CO.	SP-ATSF
51	LOWRIE PAVING CO. INC.	SP-ATSF
51	DUNHAM, CARRIGAN & HAYDEN	SP-ATSF
52	WALIN-DAVIT BOAT CORP.	SP
53		SP-ATSF
54	J. BREUNER CO.	SP-ATSF
54	METAL PRODUCTS FABRICATION CO.	SP-ATSF
54	GIBRALTAR WAREHOUSE	SP-ATSF
54	AMERICAN RED CROSS	SP-ATSF
54	BUTLER BROS.	SP-ATSF
54	SF. WAREHOUSE CO.	SP-ATSF
54	U.S. PLYWOOD	SP-ATSF
55		SP-ATSF

You can download a copy of the Excel version from Google Docs at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d_3_cTua0_sDPNKY5QCNAjqTHL-qdEWM/view?usp=sharing

This Thanksgiving I am grateful to Pete and all the others who freely share their knowledge and reference materials.  I hope this gives you something to be grateful for as well.

Happy Thanksgiving

John Barry

23 November 2017

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA

Sunday, 19 November 1944

Today, the British Second Army captured Geilenkirchen in Germany. 

Sunday, 19 November 2017

Notice anything interesting about the two dates?  I reopened Excel this morning after the computer re-booted overnight and notice that Uncle Bill’s minions had pushed some templates for universal calendars.  Since I’d just finished working with some period data, I thought, what the heck and downloaded the 12 month version.  Plugging my modelling year of 1944 into the handy dandy input cell on the first tab, I had a 1944 calendar.  Clicking on the December tab, I was surprised to see that my birthday (the 1^st) fell on a Friday, just like this year.  Somewhere, deep in the cobwebs of memory, are recollections of year types and lists of identical years.  Too much trouble to keep track of.  But here is a versatile free tool that can help you generate a sense of time and period on your RR.

1944 matches 2017 from March on as this is not a leap year.  2018 will be a day to day match on dates throughout the year for 1945.  Happy Modelling!

John Barry

North Bay Lines

Golden Gates and Fast Freights

Lovettsville, VA