Lyngso a rail customer once more

Today while riding the bike to work I saw something suprising. For years the only occupants of the siding off the Port of Redwood city branch leading to Lyngso building materials have been various pieces of MOW equipment. But today a BNSF hopper car was spotted at the end of the track and some kind of pellet like material was being offloaded into a truck via a conveyor belt. The local must have had a nice time switching this, because they would have had to move the MOW equipment out of the way, and then put it back afterwards to slide this car in.   All in all the line to the port is an interesting reminder of what freight railroading was like all over the peninsula in the post war years when the Southern Pacific ran lots of short industrial leads all over the new industrial parks, almost of all of which have vanished in the mean time. However of late the port has been quite busy with both Granite rock and the metal recycling people taking lots of cars, and the chemical folks guzzling the occasional tank car. So it’s nice to see Lyngso actually using their connection again too!