A dispute over the cost of rail line maintenance could threaten the future of Roaring Camp Inc.’s popular passenger trains, which run from the mountain community of Felton through redwood forest and 8 miles down to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
Roaring Camp Railroads and the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) have gone head to head over who bears responsibility for repairing the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line, which runs from the Felton Branch down the coast to Watsonville and needs $50 million or more to fix two bridges and implement measures to address sea level rise and coastal erosion.
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