what about oakland?

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ridgescan

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Anybody here do Oakland,Ca? Seen some very cool videos showing freight ambling down the middle of the street! Very odd to me to see a huge train mingling with cars and peds out of its proper corridor..like a bizzare dream! If you have done Oakland do you know of the safer spots to railfan?:wink:
 

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at least you're on public property for the most part

Just don't take pictures of trains, uhn uhnnn!

People might think you're up to no good :p

I don't know of safer spots except for the odd stations that have platforms unfenced or guarded with the yellow platform border . They do exist. But if I tell you, it'll get overrun with foamers and Trains Magazine will make it a 'hot spot' , then al quesidia will want to set up shop and then...
 

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Jack London Square is the area I thik you're talking about. There's always a lot of trains going through the area and you are free to take all the pictures you want from the sidewalk. It's a reasonably safe area of Oakland and I wouldn't have any problems being there unarmed during the day. After dark, all bets are off almost anywhere in Oakland.
 

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OK Jim.sounds pretty good-thanks you guys. Daytime Oakland I think is OK I take the wife during Feb. to a White Elephant sale out there. I'll be checking Jack London Square-that ought to be a cool experience! I've seen street running only once when I was young in Chicago. I always thought it was so neat. 73s
 

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Well after all this time I finally went to Jack London Square-thank you so much Jim, you were right:) VERY cool I watched an SD-45, all by itself no less, pulling what looked to be a 2 mile long lashup of empty cradlecars to the port. We found a nice spot at Pier 1 Imports-you can stand right alongside as all that might grows on you then rumbles by--what a kick! Got some nice passenger action too. Too bad a guy's gotta travel all the way across the bay just to get a little train in his diet:( but to me worth the effort!
 
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