Railroads do not operate in a vacuum—they run according to schedules. For large-scale railroad companies such as Southern Pacific, these are...

Logging activity in the Santa Cruz Mountains was on the rise in the 1880s. Redwood mills from south of Felton to north of Boulder Creek and ...

Most railroad companies have their secrets and those that operated in Santa Cruz County were no different. When railroad fever hit Californi...

With the completion of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States in May 1869, railroading schemes within California rea...

From its earliest years as a community, Boulder Creek and its predecessors—Boulder and Lorenzo—was more of an industrial town than a resort ...