https://scchistory.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Santa_Cruz_Branch_Rail_Line 2026-05-02T00:39:24Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.1 https://scchistory.com/index.php?title=Santa_Cruz_Branch_Rail_Line&diff=53955&oldid=prev 2025-07-04T16:39:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:39, 4 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;2025&#039;&#039;&#039;. Roaring Camp holds an option to provide freight service from Watsonville to Pajaro, but it&#039;s unclear whether any trains are actually operating there.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;2025&#039;&#039;&#039;. Roaring Camp holds an option to provide freight service from Watsonville to Pajaro, but it&#039;s unclear whether any trains are actually operating there.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For a more complete history of this rail <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">line</del>, see [https://www.santacruztrains.com/2019/04/railroads-southern-pacific-branch-lines.html Santa Cruz Branch Line] at Santa Cruz Trains.com.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For a more complete history of this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and other area </ins>rail <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lines</ins>, see [https://www.santacruztrains.com/2019/04/railroads-southern-pacific-branch-lines.html Santa Cruz Branch Line] at Santa Cruz Trains.com.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Transportation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Transportation]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:38, 4 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line''' was added to the regional Southern Pacific rail system in 1881 when SP acquired the bankrupt narrow-gauge [[Santa Cruz Railroad]] in 1881. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By </del>1883<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>SP <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </del>converted the line to standard-gauge tracks, allowing SP trains to access <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>Pajaro <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">junction</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">just across </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monterey County line from </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Watsonville</del>]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Southern Pacific </del>merged with Union Pacific <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 1996</del>. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bought the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">line </del>from UP in 2010, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>in 2012 completed the first of several unsuccessful contracts with outside rail companies to provide freight and (and potential passenger) service.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line''' was added to the regional Southern Pacific rail system in 1881 when SP acquired the bankrupt narrow-gauge [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">History Pages: 29 - How the trains came to Santa Cruz (part 2)|</ins>Santa Cruz Railroad <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(SCR)</ins>]] in 1881. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Timeline:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1871'''. Southern Pacific built a branch line to Pajaro, just across the Monterey County line from [[Watsonville]]. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1872'''. SP extended that line to Salinas. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1875'''. The narrow-gauge Santa Cruz Railroad line was completed, ending at Pajaro and creating a junction where freight and passengers could change between narrow-gauge and standard-gauge trains. After acquiring the *'''</ins>1883<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''. </ins>SP converted the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SCR </ins>line to standard-gauge tracks, allowing SP trains to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">directly </ins>access <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Santa Cruz County </ins>from Pajaro <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Station. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1912'''. SP renamed Pajaro Junction to Watsonville Junction.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1940'''. The Santa Clara &amp; Santa Cruz Branch rail line was shut down, and SP annexed 8 miles of its track</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from Santa Cruz past Felton to [[Olympia]]. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1940s'''. SP shut down passenger service to Santa Cruz in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">late 1940s.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1985'''. </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Roaring Camp</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bought the Santa Cruz-to-Olympia line from SP. SP then annexed the 11-mile Davenport Branch, completing the final 32-mile-long configuration of the Santa Cruz Branch Line.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1980s'''</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SP ended regular freight service to Santa Cruz.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''1996'''. SP </ins>merged with Union Pacific <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(UP). </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''2010'''</ins>. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bought the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Santa Cruz Branch Line </ins>from UP in 2010<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The California Transportation Commission approved the purchase in 2011 and</ins>, in 2012<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, the RTC </ins>completed the first of several unsuccessful contracts with outside rail companies to provide freight and (and potential passenger) service<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''2012-2025'''. The [[Santa Cruz County Coastal Rail Trail]] uses the Santa Cruz Branch Line, and construction continues on the bike/pedestrian path adjacent to the rails.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*'''2025'''. Roaring Camp holds an option to provide freight service from Watsonville to Pajaro, but it's unclear whether any trains are actually operating there.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For a more complete history of this rail line, see [https://www.santacruztrains.com/2019/04/railroads-southern-pacific-branch-lines.html Santa Cruz Branch Line] at Santa Cruz Trains.com</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Transportation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Transportation]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Carey https://scchistory.com/index.php?title=Santa_Cruz_Branch_Rail_Line&diff=53953&oldid=prev 2025-07-04T15:22:32Z

<p>Created page with &quot;The &#039;&#039;&#039;Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line&#039;&#039;&#039; was added to the regional Southern Pacific rail system in 1881 when SP acquired the bankrupt narrow-gauge <a href="/index.php?title=Santa_Cruz_Railroad&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Santa Cruz Railroad (page does not exist)">Santa Cruz Railroad</a> in 1881. By 1883, SP had converted the line to standard-gauge tracks, allowing SP trains to access it from the Pajaro junction, just across the Monterey County line from <a href="/index.php/Watsonville" title="Watsonville">Watsonville</a>. Southern Pacific merged with Union Pacific in 1996. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bough...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line&#039;&#039;&#039; was added to the regional Southern Pacific rail system in 1881 when SP acquired the bankrupt narrow-gauge [[Santa Cruz Railroad]] in 1881. By 1883, SP had converted the line to standard-gauge tracks, allowing SP trains to access it from the Pajaro junction, just across the Monterey County line from [[Watsonville]]. Southern Pacific merged with Union Pacific in 1996. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bought the line from UP in 2010, and in 2012 completed the first of several unsuccessful contracts with outside rail companies to provide freight and (and potential passenger) service.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Transportation]]</div>

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