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VC Star

Sierra Northern Railway's sister company, Mendocino Railway, had used eminent domain to acquire 270 acres of land in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg in November.
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The commission was scheduled to vote at its Dec. 3 meeting on whether to approve a 35-year agreement with Woodland, California-based Sierra Northern Railway to operate and maintain the Santa Paula Branch Line railroad starting Jan. 1. The commission's staff recommended greenlighting the agreement.

Owned by the commission, the branch line stretches 32 miles from Ventura through Santa Paula and Fillmore to unincorporated Piru.

But two days before the meeting, a number of commissioners received an email with links to newspaper articles reporting that Sierra Northern Railway's sister company, Mendocino Railway, had used eminent domain to acquire 270 acres of land in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg in November.
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The articles were sent to the commissioners by...