Port of Oakland, CA

[scoobydo]

The Port of Oakland is only about 40 minutes away as I live in San Jose.
I wanted to take my son down to check out the trains and all the freight and inter-modal equipment. And of course, those cranes.
Anybody know where regular folk can hang out to just check out the action?
From Google maps, it mostly looks private industrial.
I wanted to see if anybody knew of any hangouts where you can get some clear up-close views of some train action.

 

[cct70]

Check out the park along the waterfront near the old "Oakland Mole" passenger station. The old mole is now a park but the old tower is still there and open as a museum.

http://www.waterfrontaction.org/map/park_port_view.htm

 

[boatwrench]

Port of Oakland

A dozen years ago I used to watch the OME pull out every Friday night or Saturday morning followed by a breakfast at Denny's.

Now I would recommend the overpass above Magnolia Tower to watch the yard and anywhere along Jack London Square for main line traffic.