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Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad
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We take a break from massive screwing around to massively screw around in California's huge redwood trees. Ride Steam locomotive #7, a Shay type from the Westside Lumber Company through the redwood trees at Roaring Camp, near Santa Cruz. • ***************************************************************** • From the web sites: • Mountain man, Isaac Graham, settled here in the 1830s. Soon after, Mexican authorities named Graham's wild settlement Roaring Camp. • In 1842, Graham established the first saw mill west of the Mississippi. Fortunately, the Big Trees here were spared the woodman's axe, and 25 years later became the first virgin stand of coastal redwoods to be protected from logging. • The area's first railroad, the Santa Cruz Felton, began carrying tourists to the Big Trees and the beach in 1875. In 2013, the Roaring Camp Big Trees Narrow Gauge RR celebrated its Golden Anniversary (50 years) and the Santa Cruz, Big Trees Pacific RY has been operating along the 1875 Santa Cruz Felton route since 1985. • The dream of preserving a piece of the 1880s and early California was the dream of Roaring Camps Founder F. Norman Clark. Tragically in December 1985, Norman Clark passed away of pneumonia resulting from his selfless work to open the Santa Cruz, Big Trees Pacific Railway. His wife, Georgiana, the longtime Vice President of Operations was elected chief executive officer by the respective board and continues as President of the company. • Today, Melani Clark, daughter of Roaring Camp Founder, F. Norman Clark and Georgiana serves the company as its CEO continuing to preserve a piece of the 1880's and early California that was the dream of Founder, F. Norman Clark. Georgiana continues to serve the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors and President. • ******************************************************************* • The Sonora Engine #7 is a three-truck, 60-ton Shay engine built in 1911 by Lima Locomotive Works, factory number 2465. The West Side Lumber Company purchased the engine from the Butte Plumas Railroad, where it was engine #4, and renumbered it #7. After long years of service, it was retired and stood in a county park in Sonora. It was refurbished to operate in 1977 as engine #7 for the West Side Cherry Valley Railway, part of Quality Resorts of America Inc. Purchased by Roaring Camp in 1985, the engine was retained as #7 and nicknamed Sonora, in honor of its gloried past. • The Sonora is one of only 83 Shays left in North America, and one of the few fully operational Shay engines in existence today. • ****************************************************************** • From Trees to Shining Seas - Felton to Santa Cruz • Departing from the Santa Cruz Mountains, travel through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, down the scenic San Lorenzo River Gorge, across a 1909 steel truss bridge and through an 1875 tunnel before arriving at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Reverse roundtrips departing from the beach in Santa Cruz to Roaring Camp and back may be purchased from the conductor on the train departing from Santa Cruz. • The Santa Cruz Big Trees Pacific Railway operates passenger and freight services on one of the oldest and most historic lines in California. When the route opened in 1875 it carried lumber as well as picnickers and tourists to the Big Trees and Santa Cruz. Today's Beach Train passengers can start their roundtrip journeys from either Roaring Camp in Felton or from the beach in Santa Cruz. • Links: • http://www.roaringcamp.com/ • ~-~~-~~~-~~-~ • Please watch: The Trains of Santa Cruz California • • The Trains of Santa Cruz California • ~-~~-~~~-~~-~
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