Re: Sunset Railroad
Author: Dave Banker
Date: 11-15-2011 - 15:43
There were a couple attempts to save part of the Sunset. The Recreational Railroad Coalition (principally a "speeder group") made some inquiries about it, and while I do not know too much about all that, it was my understanding that UP was completely unwilling to even talk about it. Then there was, as I understand it, an effort from some folks in Taft, with some involvement by the City itself, to investigate possibly a dinner train or something like that, but it turned out that some of the "consultants" they hired were outright crooks, and that all came apart with some considerable uglyness. In the meantime, all the track south and west of Baker Chemical was pretty promptly removed. I am not too good with timing, but it seems like all this was something like 6 or 7 years ago.