stash Wrote:
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> 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.

That actually doubled the number of customers in Watsonville.