Re: SMART Gets Money for Healdsburg extension
Author: D. B. Arthur
Date: 10-27-2024 - 16:08
john monhoff Wrote:
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> Dave, I took the e-z way of getting my NWP miles, just rode one train, the Arcata & Mad River 100th anniversary special from San Rafael to Korblex, Korbel and beyond on Memorial day weekend 1954. Got entire A&MR and Northern Redwood logging trackage too! As with so many of the trips you post about, just can't have this kind of fun no more!
That's some choice mileage! We didn't appreciate what we had until it was gone.
Back in the sixties, if you rode two excursions and the Budd car, you could have ridden most of the line. I remember reading in PACIFIC NEWS about an Oakland-Asti excursion to visit a winery, a Novato-Willits excursion and the Budd car was still running.