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Re: Xonstruction in the canyon
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 07-06-2015 - 15:35
>I suggest very strongly that you go to Solano County Assessors Office and find out what name is on the tax records for the former Sacramento Northern land. However you seem to know more about it than an attorney who specialized in real estate law. He discovered the Molena property and had title transferred on it together with the ROW land. He spent many hours working with maps in the Assessor's Office. BAERA, the legal operator of WRM, now owns the old SN right if way all the way to Chips Island.
No it does not; all WRM owns is the track, which it had to buy and was a little concerned about coming up with the necessary cashola at the time (something on the order of $200,000). The SP had trackage rights over the line (forget how they got them) and had to sign off before the line went rails to trails. I probably still have a copy of the SP's letter somewhere in my files (development of the deep water port at Collinsville had been effectively blocked by "clever environmentalists" was the phraseology used).
Quite possibly it owns outright those pieces of land associated with the barn at Molena, but the R/W itself, the land under the track, is in the right of way bank. WRM is the custodian, which carries a large amount of control over its use, but by no means is it "ownership" in the legal sense like it is for the acreage at Rio Vista Junction where the carbarns, shop, and visitor's center are.
There's also the R/W of the connection to Cordero from Creed through Travis -- all that's left of it on the south side is between Creed and the base fence line. The UP didn't realize it owned the property, and WRM was at one time interested in acquiring enough of it to put the wye back in, but I never heard what transpired about it (WRM no longer uses this part of the line).
I was there privy, to all the discussion and process. Written into the transfer to the rails to trails apparatus are the "free" easements for the two petroleum pipelines, no different from the easements for pipelines on the former SP Niles Canyon line.
>At one time a very small group of dissidents who were not able to get elected to the BAERA board even published a competing newsletter that was mailed to BAERA members. Does "The Report" sound familiar? (The official newsletter was "The Review.") "The Report" contained many articles about the progress restoring Robert Dollar #3 that today runs in Niles Canyon. The dissidents circulated much wrong information that you are repeating here.
The usual disinformation.
You used to be a steam/diesel engine hater par excellence at WRM. Why are you now at PLA, where there is absolutely no trolley wire, let along any of your favorite trolleys?
No it does not; all WRM owns is the track, which it had to buy and was a little concerned about coming up with the necessary cashola at the time (something on the order of $200,000). The SP had trackage rights over the line (forget how they got them) and had to sign off before the line went rails to trails. I probably still have a copy of the SP's letter somewhere in my files (development of the deep water port at Collinsville had been effectively blocked by "clever environmentalists" was the phraseology used).
Quite possibly it owns outright those pieces of land associated with the barn at Molena, but the R/W itself, the land under the track, is in the right of way bank. WRM is the custodian, which carries a large amount of control over its use, but by no means is it "ownership" in the legal sense like it is for the acreage at Rio Vista Junction where the carbarns, shop, and visitor's center are.
There's also the R/W of the connection to Cordero from Creed through Travis -- all that's left of it on the south side is between Creed and the base fence line. The UP didn't realize it owned the property, and WRM was at one time interested in acquiring enough of it to put the wye back in, but I never heard what transpired about it (WRM no longer uses this part of the line).
I was there privy, to all the discussion and process. Written into the transfer to the rails to trails apparatus are the "free" easements for the two petroleum pipelines, no different from the easements for pipelines on the former SP Niles Canyon line.
>At one time a very small group of dissidents who were not able to get elected to the BAERA board even published a competing newsletter that was mailed to BAERA members. Does "The Report" sound familiar? (The official newsletter was "The Review.") "The Report" contained many articles about the progress restoring Robert Dollar #3 that today runs in Niles Canyon. The dissidents circulated much wrong information that you are repeating here.
The usual disinformation.
You used to be a steam/diesel engine hater par excellence at WRM. Why are you now at PLA, where there is absolutely no trolley wire, let along any of your favorite trolleys?
