Alameda Belt Line

Company History: ABL was established in 1926 to operate three and a half miles of industrial track built by the City of Alameda (in the East Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay Area.) ABL was jointly owned by Santa Fe and Western Pacific and their successors. When their last major customer, a Del Monte cannery, closed in 1998, so did the ABL. Union Pacific continued to use their trackage rights to serve one last customer for another three years. After that, the line was abandoned and the property reverted to the City of Alameda.

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