(rshsdepot) Fire Devastates SP Bayshore Roundhouse

["Jim Dent" <james.dent_@_itochu.com>]

-From Railway Preservation News...

Fire Devastates SP Bayshore Roundhouse
RyPN reader John Ezovski forwards to us the following sad news:

Fire destroyed the roof covering nine of the sixteen remaining stalls of the
ex-Southern Pacific Bayshore Roundhouse in Brisbaine, CA late Saturday
evening. I have no information as to the cause of the fire. Attached are two
pictures illustrating the damage.
(See http://www.rypn.org/Briefs/September2001/010904.htm)

The roof over the remaining seven stalls appears to have been protected by
an internal firewall. Fire fighters were still on the scene when these
pictures were taken Sunday afternoon at 3PM. Few railroad preservationists
are aware of this incident, and little was said of it in local news media.
The roundhouse has been abandoned and sealed off with chain link fencing
since the late 1980s.


(Erik Ledbetter via John Ezovski)

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