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Delighted to have found your Forum on Rails WITH Trails. In Santa Cruz County, CA, the county transportation commission wants to buy a 31 mile Union Pacific ROW. This branch line (connection to Monterey County plus old broken up connection to San Jose over mountains) now runs from 7 to 10 long freights each weekday from Davenport (isolated coast with cement plant, lumber, sm pop) to Watsonville (growing ag city with not enough housing/jobs). The commission got itself legislative approval to become a "Rail Trail Authority." It wants to go into the PASSENGER railroad business as well as the Trail business. They have concocted a way to get $11 million from a state rail building proposition by putting a "tourist train" on 6 miles of the track. This tourist train was first passed off as a "trolley," and everyone said, "Oh, how cute." Truth is its 3 old BUDD stainless steel diesel monsters. The county has allowed new homes and remodeling along parts of this line, and the homeowners are raising a ruckus over having tourists rumble and whistle by 18 times a day during "tourist season," and also probably then have freight service run at night. This is a single track. It's had several derailments over last 2 years and UP of course did some fixup. I don't think the public knows the difference between Rail to Trail and Rail with Trail. Any suggestions to stop this thing? My daughter is expecting a baby. Their home is 30 feet from these tracks.
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