Santa Fe Railroad Ferry China Basin

Unfinished History

Switching at China Basin slip in San Francisco, c. March 1971.

Image: Western Railway Museum archives, Jeff Moreau collection

Switching at China Basin slip in San Francisco, March 1971.

Image: Western Railway Museum archives, Jeff Moreau collection

The first in a two-photo set shows a Santa Fe engine pushing boxcars onto the barge at the China Basin slip.

Image: Western Railway Museum archives, Jeff Moreau collection

A different angle while the tug Paul P. Hastings" goes by, c. March 1971.

Photo: Western Railway Museum Archives, Jeff Moreau collection.

Switching cars off barge 8.

Photo: Western Railway Museum Archives, Jeff Moreau collection.

The Santa Fe railroad slip, which connected San Francisco to Richmond, from this Pier 52 location.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

Pier 52, c. 1990s.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco