The odd branching lines here mark this as a magazine, storing high explosives carefully separated from one another in underground bunkers, each served by its own bit of branching rail line. Caution is indeed indicated: Port Chicago was the site of an infamous disaster during the Second World War, in which unsafe conditions led to the explosion of two ships, practically vaporizing both along with several hundred nearby soldiers. Interestingly, this incident apparently also indirectly helped lead to military de-segregation.
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