Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway (SCMB)

[Jeff Smith]

For discussion of the SCMB, a subsidiary of Iowa Pacific: http://www.iowapacific.com/railroads/sa ... y-railway/

[Jeff Smith]

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/articl ... /171219830

The second is the fact that Iowa Pacific is bailing out of its contract to provide transportation on the rail line, citing unprofitability.

[BR&P]

Whoopie, tear out those nasty train tracks and build more hiking trails instead!

I was going to say I could never live there, but sadly it's not just California, that mentality can be found from one ocean to the other.

[Jeff Smith]

Another IP line bites the dust: RTC on Verge of Approving Next Freight Operator

Things are touchy because Iowa Pacific, the financially strained current operator of the rail line, has made a habit of parking cars on the line indefinitely. Both men want to make sure that the blight doesn’t continue under the next partner.