Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/South San Francisco Belt Railway

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The railroad of the South San Francisco Belt Railway, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in South San Francisco, Calif., and extends from a connection with the line of Southern Pacific Company to the shore of San Francisco Bay, a distance of 1.642 miles. The carrier also owns 1.550 miles of yard tracks and sidings. Its road thus embraces 3.192 miles of all tracks owned. The carrier does a switching business exclusively and owns no freight or passenger cars. It owns and uses one roadway machine and two oil-burning locomotives. The grading is light. The tracks are laid with re-lay Bessemer rail, ranging in weight from 60 to 80 pounds.

Corporate history and development of fixed physical property.—The carrier was incorporated November 20, 1907, under the laws of California. The purpose of incorporation was to purchase the road operated by the Western Meat Company, which extended from the main line of the Southern Pacific Company at South San Francisco to and beyond the Western Meat Company plant at San Bruno Point, Calif. The date of organization was November 20, 1907.

The road owned by the carrier was constructed during the year 1891 by the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company, from which company it was purchased by the carrier. This purchase did not include the right of way, which remained the property of the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company. However, a perpetual lease of the right of way is held by the carrier.

This road was privately operated by the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company from its completion in 1891 until 1903. In 1903, the Western Meat Company took over the road under lease and operated it privately, until the carrier acquired the property on November 20, 1907. Since that date it has been operated by the carrier's own organization. The principal office is located in San Francisco.