Santa Cruz County did not always have rail services. Before 1876, travel to the remote northern cove of the Monterey Bay was difficult, with...

The Ocean Shore Railway—a project over thirty years in the making—began with a bang and then died a slow and painful death as natural disast...

The arrival of the Santa Cruz Railroad to Watsonville in 1876 did not immediately lead to an expansion of the agricultural industry in the P...

On the evening of April 17, 1906, the Central Coast of California was on the brink of big changes for local railroads. After nearly twenty y...