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The NWP is dead, long live the trail
Author: Frenchprof
Date: 07-07-2007 - 08:37
As a 1964 graduate of Humboldt State, it is sad to see today's Eureka and Arcata. It is truly California's Appalachia. The economy used to be based on lumber, fishing and tourism. There is so much less timber being processed, so much less fishing activity and tourists now choose to go on a cruise, not a two week, motel to motel trek by car.
A railroad is a business and business is not good on the north coast. Not even "Downtown Brown" can save trains through the Eel River Canyon. Perhaps commute runs will save parts of the NWP in Sonoma and Marin Counties and even south of Ukiah in Mendocino County. But, north of Willits in Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt Counties, the future is doubtful--at best.
A railroad is a business and business is not good on the north coast. Not even "Downtown Brown" can save trains through the Eel River Canyon. Perhaps commute runs will save parts of the NWP in Sonoma and Marin Counties and even south of Ukiah in Mendocino County. But, north of Willits in Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt Counties, the future is doubtful--at best.
