Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >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?

Gee whiz, Dr. Z-- I thought you and Fred were old buddies !! Even though Fred got into a disagreement about operating a particular car and then quit the organization, my question to YOU is: Are you still active at WRM these days or did you leave as well at some point in time ?

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