Does anyone know who owns the rail line that is oos that travels along the CA coastline thru Loleta and Eureka and how to contact the owner? As far as I can tell it's a mess of private and gov't ownership and nothing has used the rails in decades.
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North Coast Railroad Authority owns the line, which hasn't seen a train north of Willits since 1998. There are supposedly plans to make it a trail, and it would be quite the undertaking to make the line usable for freight that far north again due to the scope of repairs, and constantly required upkeep.
Avatar: NHV 669 at the south end of the "Pompy" in White River Jct., VT on 4/29/1993. Photo by Richard Roberg.
https://youtube.com/@NHVT_Productions
https://youtube.com/@NHVT_Productions
https://www.deekadelic.com/2014/05/05/t ... er-canyon/
Here's a really informative blog post about just how bad of shape the line is in, and this was nearly a decade ago. Ol' boy hiked 55 miles of it with his friends.
Here's a really informative blog post about just how bad of shape the line is in, and this was nearly a decade ago. Ol' boy hiked 55 miles of it with his friends.
Avatar: NHV 669 at the south end of the "Pompy" in White River Jct., VT on 4/29/1993. Photo by Richard Roberg.
https://youtube.com/@NHVT_Productions
https://youtube.com/@NHVT_Productions
It looks like the official end is soon to come for that line as some of the last barriers to official abandonment have come down: https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/ ... /51468.pdf