Sierra should have been busy lining up new customers. Without decent revenue the line is doomed. I doubt that "dinner trains" would support the railroad. It takes more traffic than that.


Howard Wrote:
> This obviously is terrible news for the local
> Sierra employees. They worked so hard to undue the
> neglect of the line by Union Pacific. Union
> Pacific will get the line back in significantly
> better condition than they gave it to Sierra
> Northern two years ago. The Santa Cruz Branch Line
> was in goods hands under Sierra Northern’s
> stewardship and the line and the County will be
> diminished with their leaving.