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Natural Bridges State Beach is a 65-acre (26 ha) California state park in Santa Cruz, California, in the United States.The park features a natural bridge across a section of the beach and a eucalyptus grove provides habitat for monarch butterflies.
Santa Cruz Portland Cement 0-4-0 #2 steam engine (no longer used by 2022) rolling into Santa Cruz, California, on former SP trackage on Chestnut Street Side view of CF7 2641 The railway began life as the 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad, built between its namesake cities of Santa Cruz and Felton in 1875 to send logs and ...
There was a railway turntable and 5-stall roundhouse in Santa Cruz, but steam locomotives were replaced by EMD GP9s in 1955. Daily local freight service was replaced in 1982 by tri-weekly branch line trains operating at 20 mi (32 km) per hour including a caboose until 1986.
The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades through redwood forests to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of 3.25 miles (5.23 kilometers).
The Wrights Tunnel (also known as the Summit Tunnel, Tunnel 2, or Tunnel 1 after the daylighting of the Cats Canyon tunnel) is a railroad tunnel located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, California. Opened in 1880 after almost two years of construction involving numerous fatalities, the tunnel was at one point ...
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Two years and eight tunnels were required to extend the SPC through the Santa Cruz Mountains from Los Gatos to California's third busiest seaport at Santa Cruz in 1880. SPC leased the San Lorenzo Flume and Transportation Company to acquire their subsidiary Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad as a route through the city to Santa Cruz municipal pier ...
The Santa Cruz Railroad inaugurated rail service to Watsonville in 1876, having started work on the line from Santa Cruz in 1873. A second rail line was completed in 1880, connecting the city to the San Francisco Bay Area via a narrow-gauge railway built by the South Pacific Coast Railroad over the Southern Coast Ranges .