It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Santa Rosa as Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) 104 and 103 sit at the company facility next to the Sonoma County Airport Station.
SMART stands for Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit, and is currently in the final construction phase. These are two of the DMU cars at the Santa Rosa maintenance base. The cars are in an acceptance m... (more)
NWP 1922 trundles through northern Santa Rosa with one car of lumber to be trans-loaded at the spur at Standard Structure.
The last empty tie train trundles south on a typical foggy morning along the Redwood Empire Route.
An NWP work train crosses Santa Rosa Creek, on it way south to get more ties for distribution.
NWP's Petaluma Local heads south passed the old Santa Rosa Depot on the NWP. In less then a month, the SP will hand control of the NWP over to the California Northern.