This video is the old railcars and engines of Redwood City along with forgotten railroad infrastructure. In this video you will see, Cabooses, 45 Tonners, MW Trains, And Many Many Hoppers. This Video Contains Footage Of The UP Redwood Junction Industrial Lead/The JPBX Dumbarton Cutoff, And The Redwood Harbor Industrial Lead.
Down Here I Will List The Trains And Their **KNOWN** History and their use.
Flatcar: JPBX MW301 (Unknown History To This Train Car, The flat car is now used with MOW Trains helping to transport railroad ties.
Hopper Car: JPBX MW604 (A ballast car originally owned by Amtrak was given to Caltrain after JPBX took operations from Amtrak.
Hopper Car (2): JPBX MW606 (Another ballast car originally owned by Amtrak, and used to re-ballast the tracks.
Hopper Car (3): JPBX MW602 (Another ballast car originally owned by Amtrak, and used to re-ballast the tracks.
Flatcar (2): JPBX MW710 (Unknown History To This Train Car, Used to transport railroad ties and MW Equipment)
Hopper Car (4): CELX 44356 (Old UP ballast hopper *Not Moved Since 2020*)
Caboose (1): DRGW 01522 (An old Denver Rio Grande Western Caboose that is almost always in the Bay Area)
Revenue Use Hoppers: (WFRX Granite Rock Hoppers)
MOW Train: No Reporting Marks.. (A new gas powered crane sits on the east leg of the wye with a small flatcar.
MOW Train (2): No Reporting Marks.. (Two small yellow ballast hoppers sit with another gas powered unit at the end.)
Caboose (2): SP 4050 (SP 4050 sits in Redwood City, the caboose was donated to offices in the late 1980s)
Caboose (3): SP 4051 (SP 4051 sits with 4050 like brothers)
45 Tonner: PORC 1 (An old 45 Tonner from 1925 sits in Redwood City as of 2004 originally owned by VCRC)
Bridge With SP Insignia: (An old bridge under the 101 Freeway still has SP Marking in it even after more than 20 years of not existing)
Old SP Signals: (Two old SP Signals sit on the Dumbarton Line, not used and facing away from the tracks as to "Not Waste Electricity" on having them on.)
The rest is just photos I took while making this video!
Here's some history on Redwood Junction:
Redwood Junction began in the late 1800s when the people of Redwood City built a port to haul Redwood Lumber Trees to other places, So a narrow gauge railroad was built from the Port of Redwood City To Redwood Junction to make transporting them more easier. After the lumber industry came to an end in Redwood City, the Dumbarton Line was built to Newark and freight trains along with passenger trains whould pass thought there. This made Redwood Junction a Key place along the San Jose to San Fransisco Route. But then the bridge was abandoned in the 1980s and so was most of the Dumbarton Line. Almost no trains whould pass through there other than local trains switching out cars on the industries along the line. But then in 1996 when UP bought out SP the Union Pacific didint want the line and gave it to Caltrain, from there none of the industries were switched out. Then Caltrain began to store cars there, in this day and age the Dumbarton line is used to store old cars and MOW Equipment. If you are lucky you might see some of them moving around thought the night.
The Port Of Redwood City:
After the port stoped serving lumber they started to take Cement trains And Boxcars to be shipped on Ships. SP Had also built a small spur from Chestnut street to Middlefield to serve three customers in 1989. The line was taken out in 1992. Today the line takes two trains a day with Rock Cars and Cement Hoppers and Sometimes Tanker Cars.
Redwood Junction Tower:
The Redwood Junction Tower was built in 1932 and governed all of the interlocking in Redwood City, the building was abandoned in the 80s after an arsonist set fire to the Tower. Today where it used to reside is a dumping area for homeless people.
Today Redwood Junction sits between CP Dumbarton and CP Junction with Caltrain trains going over the junction every 30 minutes. The port line sees about 2 trains a day and the Dumbarton line sees 1 train a month on average.
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