Still aboard the Loose Caboose Boat and having a good time!
San Joaquin train 716 heading to Martinez.
The C&H Sugar Plant in Crockett.
The Glen Cove Marina where this trip started and will end later this afternoon.
The Atlantic Diana boat unloading at the C&H Sugar Plant in Crockett.
Old pilings are along the shore including those of the old Southern Pacific ferry dock. Ferries took whole trains across the Carquinez Strait to Benicia before the railroad bridge was built at Martinez in 1936.
As we traveled up the channel the Martinez railroad bridge could now be seen in the distance.
This is where the ferry slip was on the Benicia side of the Carquinez Strait.
The Southern Pacific Benicia station came into view.
Mount Diablo with an oil refinery along the shore.
The Southern Pacific Benicia station.
The old Civil War Army Base in Benicia.
Grain terminal on the Benicia shore.
The Polar Discovery.
The lift span is up on the Martinez railroad bridge with a boat ready to pass through.
The Yiannis B went under the bridge.
Amtrak Capitol Corridor train 734 crosses the Martinez railroad bridge.
Looking back down the Carquinez Strait.
A look at the Benicia waterfront.
The Polar Discovery.
The US Navy Mothball Fleet.
The Pine Galaxy went under the bridge. Now we would watch the California Zephyr, Train 5, and Capitol Corridor Train 741 cross the bridge.
California Zephyr train 5 and Capitol Corridor train 741 crossed the Martinez Railroad Bridge.
The Martinez Railroad Bridge from the east side of it looking up.
Union Pacific train at the Benicia unloading facility.
An oil refinery on the Benicia side of the Carquinez Strait. Next onto the US Navy Mothball Fleet.
| Click here for the next part of this story! |