San Francisco Landmark 114: Beltline Railroad Roundhouse

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25 May 2010

25 May 2010
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Landmark 114
Beltline Railroad Roundhouse
Intersection Sansome, Lombard, The Embarcadero
North Waterfront
Built 1918

A plaque in the pavement reads:

Construction began in 1889 for San Francisco's harbor Belt Line Railroad, a terminal switching railroad with locomotives dedicated to moving boxcars and flat cars directly alongside cargo vessels. Opening in 1896 to serve the warehouse and shipping district on the north waterfront, the Belt line tracks eventually covered 70 miles of the city front - from Islais Creek in the south, running through Fort Mason tunnel, to serve the Presidio in the north. Four tracks, that used half the width of the Embarcadero extended more than a hundred spur tracks out on to the piers. It was a marriage of technology between ocean-going vessels and the nation's railroad system.

The Roundhouse is leased by the Port of San Francisco to private architectural and design firms and is not open to the public. For more information and photographs, please see National Register #86000207.

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