A wye  is a common railroad track feature that can serve several different purposes. Usually triangular or Y-shaped, hence the name, the pri...

The site of Mack on a 1913 US Geological Survey map. Along the southern edge of Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Morocojo (or La Sagrada Fam...

1913-1914 US Geological Survey map showing Struve. Like many of the sugar beet-farming families along the Pajaro Valley Consolidated R...

Daguerreotype of John Rogers Cooper, 1851. [Bancroft Library] The lower Salinas Valley served as a rich source of sugar beets for Claus...

The history of the Warnock family of Salinas is a little-known story. The family immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1868 and e...

In the Rancho Bolsa Nuevo y Moro Cojo alongside the Old Salinas River south of Moss Landing due west of Castroville once sat the little st...

USGS Map showing the location of Beach Station, 1912. Beach Station is perhaps the most obscure railroad stop along the Pajaro Valley Co...

Location of Jensen Siding, 1912. [US Geological Survey] The history of the stop known simply as Jensen along the Pajaro Valley Consoli...

A mule cart at the Logan quarry, c. 1905, demonstrating the likely gravel quarrying operation at Gravel Pit No. 1 around the same time. [G...

Michael Cassin was an East Coast immigrant to California who settled in San Francisco in 1859. Not long after his son, Charles Michael Cassi...

The Thurwachter spur along the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad  right-of-way, 1912 [USGS] Frederick Thurwachter was one of the many...

Approximate location of Williamson, which is unmarked on this 1914 USGS map. As the Pajaro Valley Railroad followed the course of the P...

Trafton siding as viewed on a 1914 USGS Map. The Trafton family were some of the first major East Coast settlers to migrate to the Pajar...

John T. Porter, c. 1875 [Santa Cruz Public Libraries] To the southeast of Petersen station was another stop nebulously named Pajaro. Th...

Perhaps one of the most ephemeral stops along the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad was Petersen, located just to the south of the Pajaro ...

Located on the south bank of the Pajaro River at two different spots on the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad line were the stations known...