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Santa Cruz-Portland Cement #2, an 0-4-0 ST steam locomotive built by H.K. Porter in 1906, has visited the railroad in the past. In July 2018, two additional CF7 locomotives (#2467 and #2524) were acquired from the Texas Rock Crusher Railroad.
Southern Pacific formed the subsidiary Pajaro and Santa Cruz Railroad on April 11, 1884 to operate the line until actual merger into Southern Pacific on May 14, 1888. The 3.7-mile (6.0 km) Aptos branch from Aptos to Loma Prieta was built as the Loma Prieta Railroad in 1883 and abandoned in 1928.
The line was constructed as the Santa Cruz Railroad between 1873–1876 and was laid with narrow gauge rail. After foreclosure, it was sold to Southern Pacific (through a subsidiary Pacific Improvement Company) who converted the line to standard gauge and operated until the merger into Southern Pacific on May 14, 1888.
In 1930, the Welch family sold part of the property to Santa Cruz County, which eventually became part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. [3] The fire-damaged trestle seen in 2023. Roaring Camp Railroads operations began in 1963 under the guidance of F. Norman Clark (1935–1985), who was the founder and owner.
The South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California, and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco. The railroad was created as the Santa Clara Valley Railroad, founded by local strawberry growers as a way to get their crops to market in San Francisco ...
Samuel P. Taylor State Park is a state park located in Marin County, California, United States, which includes approximately 2,700 acres (11 km 2) of redwood forest and grassland. The park contains about 600 acres (2.4 km 2 ) of old-growth forest , [ 1 ] some of which can be seen along the Pioneer Tree Trail.