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(rshsdepot) Save the SP West Oakland Diesel Shop

-From the Altamont Press Newsline...

Save the SP West Oakland Diesel Shop

A grass roots effort is looking for support in saving the former SP West
Oakland Diesel Shop Building located in West Oakland, CA. Please read and
sign the petition at the link below.

To those of you unfamiliar with this structure, the SP West Oakland Diesel
Shop Building is inarguably THE most historically significant structure left
in West Oakland, CA. It was constructed in the mid 1870's as a Car Paint
Shop for the Central Pacific Railroad, as part of a major expansion of the
CP's passenger car shop facilities in Oakland.

The shop is a brick structure currently housing seven stalls for locomotives
and rolling stock, and is still in use today as a inspection area for UP and
Amtrak locomotives.

Demolition notices have now been posted for the historic brick SP Diesel
Shop Building (former SP Car shop, dating back to the 1870s), as well as for
the set of buildings at 515 Bay Street, including the Electrical Shop.

The Demolition Permit has not yet been approved, but these buildings are
currently obviously slated for demolition, within the month!

If you support the preservation of the diesel shop building, please sign the
online petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/spdsl/petition-sign.html
Harry Wong

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