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Re: Let The Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line Bridge Rehabilitation Begin
Author: Howard
Date: 08-13-2013 - 19:13
Carol L. Voss Wrote:
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> Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> -----
> > Shortline Sammie:
> > I had heard of Stacy& Witbeck, and had thought
> > they had been in the business for a while, but
> > really knew nothing about them Glad to hear
> they
> > are so good! :) Aren't all the bridges going
> > to be rehabbed? I hope so.
> >
> > I do hope that the SC&MB really ramps up their
> > advertising about their Christmas train, and
> that
> > it will be a great success!
>
> Particularly if they pay the advertising people
> for last year's ad campaign, which , according to
> the Santa Cruz Sentinel last week, they have not
> done. 'tis somewhat of a problem. :-) BTW, Santa
> Cruz county owns those tracks and I believe that
> Santa Cruz is paying Stacy ^Y Witbeck out of
> gummint funds for the repairs, which still doesn't
> guarantee that Iowa Pacific will have the bucks to
> run the Xmas train. Life is very complicated in
> the people's republic over "there" in Cruz!! :-)
> Now the Roaring Camp Felton RR which has run a
> Xmas train for years from Felton to the Boardwalk
> doesn't have the constraints of the bridge issues
> that the Iowa Pacific does coming from Watsonville
> north to Cruz. Stay tuned.
> C.
This year's Train To Christmas Town will originate in Watsonville and not go past the La Selva Bridge.
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> Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Shortline Sammie:
> > I had heard of Stacy& Witbeck, and had thought
> > they had been in the business for a while, but
> > really knew nothing about them Glad to hear
> they
> > are so good! :) Aren't all the bridges going
> > to be rehabbed? I hope so.
> >
> > I do hope that the SC&MB really ramps up their
> > advertising about their Christmas train, and
> that
> > it will be a great success!
>
> Particularly if they pay the advertising people
> for last year's ad campaign, which , according to
> the Santa Cruz Sentinel last week, they have not
> done. 'tis somewhat of a problem. :-) BTW, Santa
> Cruz county owns those tracks and I believe that
> Santa Cruz is paying Stacy ^Y Witbeck out of
> gummint funds for the repairs, which still doesn't
> guarantee that Iowa Pacific will have the bucks to
> run the Xmas train. Life is very complicated in
> the people's republic over "there" in Cruz!! :-)
> Now the Roaring Camp Felton RR which has run a
> Xmas train for years from Felton to the Boardwalk
> doesn't have the constraints of the bridge issues
> that the Iowa Pacific does coming from Watsonville
> north to Cruz. Stay tuned.
> C.
This year's Train To Christmas Town will originate in Watsonville and not go past the La Selva Bridge.
