Friends,
I have made a few adjustments to the Yuba City map.
Most importantly, I had mistakenly switched the position of the Shell and General Petroleum yards. Oops. I had conflicting information on their position, now corrected based on earlier Sanborn maps.
I have taken a gamble on adding Earl Fruit Company, but the WP TIP Book shows them also assigned to the tracks serving Danna & Danna, but the note is a bit confusing. It is possible that Earl actually had a building between Danna & Danna and Bridge Street that was later torn down, or might just loaded from trucks there.?
I also added a "possible" note regarding the spur into Associated Transportation. I only have information on this spur from a fan-drawn map, but it is the most likely?route to that industry.
In looking through my correspondence, I found a reference to the SN diesel fuel tank being loaded using "black WP tank cars". Now the WP had various black tank cars. Possibly in the early diesel years this might have been done using their high-walkway AC&F 10K tanks, some of which were assigned to fuel service (and one I photographed at Stockton was painted yellow). Concurrently the WP used their 1201-series 12K tank cars for fuel, and these certainly would have been used to service Yuba City in later years after the AC&F cars were retired. I have never figured out where the WP loaded its fuel cars, but as most were carried as revenue cars on ORERs, they may have initially been loaded off-line, possibly at a bulk plant in the Bay Area served by the ATSF or SP.
Please delete the earlier may, in favor of the attached update.?
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff ??
