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Progressive Railroading
May 22, 2008
May 22, 2008
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DARIES FEEL PINCH OF
CLIMBING COSTS
Apr 26, 2008
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CTC APPROVES FINAL
PAYMENT
Feb 14, 2008
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This is Rich
Feb 1, 2008
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NCRA Appeal to Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign S.B. 861
Ukiah - Sept 20, 2007
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NCRA Receives $7.5
Million
Ukiah - May 4, 2007
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CTC Approves Rail Repair
Funds
Ukiah - Nov 9, 2006
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Invitation to Bid
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NCRA APPROVES OPERATOR CONTRACT
Ukiah - September 14, 2006
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NCRA SELECTS OPERATOR
Ukiah - May 31, 2006
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NCRA SELECTS OPERATOR
FINALISTS
Ukiah - May 10, 2006
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CTC APPROVES NCRA FUNDING
Ukiah - April 27, 2006 - The California Transportation
Commission (CTC) today approved $7.8 million in funding
for the North Coast Railroad Authority.
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Federal bill good
news for railroad - Aug, 2005
By QUINCY
CROMER/The Daily Journal
The $286 billion
Transportation Equity Act approved by Congress last week
includes two provisions for the North Coast Railroad
Authority: $12 million in loan forgiveness and some $8.6
million of unused funding.
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Measures revive hopes for rail line
Glenda
Anderson - THE PRESS DEMOCRAT March 14, 2005
...efforts to revive the North
Coast's once-thriving freight line continue to rumble
through state and federal legislative chambers, offering
hope to rail proponents who have seen millions of
dollars promised, then withheld from the railroad over
the past 15 years.
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CONGRESSMAN
MIKE THOMPSON PRESS RELEASE - March 11, 05
House
Approves Assistance for North Coast Railroad Authority
- Thompson
Secures Funding in Transportation Bill
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STATE
SENATOR WES CHESBRO PRESS RELEASE - March 9, 2005
Chesbro Proposes Legislation To Save
North Coast Railroad Authority
SACRAMENTO
– Senator
Wesley Chesbro (D-Arcata) has introduced a bill that
would provide the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA)
funding to jumpstart the railroad.
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NCRA
PRESS RELEASE - January 20, 2005
NCRA
Reappoints Woolley Chair
The
Board also approves $7.9 million spending plan. Click
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NCRA
PRESS RELEASE
NCRA
files lawsuit against Petaluma Barge Company
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read the lawsuit...(PDF format)
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Sierra
Railroad to buy Skunk Train
By
Bob Norberg - The Press Democrat ... December 18, 2003
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NCRA
PRESS RELEASE
NCRA Hires New Executive
Director
Ukiah,
CA– August 4. 2003 –
By
unanimous consent, the Board of Directors for the North
Coast Railroad Authority voted Friday to hire Mitch
Stogner as the new Executive Director of the agency.
Stogner replaces previous Executive Director, Douglas
Christy, who resigned in May.
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NCRA PRESS
RELEASE
North Coast Railroad
Authority Approves Staff Changes
Ukiah, CA June 19, 2003
– With the recent resignation of Executive Director Doug
Christy, the NCRA announced at it’s June 18th
regular board meeting that it has hired Mr. Rick
Kennedy as Interim Executive Director.
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Woolley to take back post
on railroad board
By The Times-Standard
Thursday, May 22, 2003
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A bill that will allow elected officials to serve on
the North Coast Railroad Authority was signed by Gov.
Gray Davis on Wednesday.
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State suspends NWP funding
Agency loses access to $41 million; general manager
announces plans to leave beleaguered railroad
Bob
Norberg - The Press Democrat - May 8, 2003
The state has suspended $41 million in funding to the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad, forcing the
long-struggling agency to shelve plans to reopen a
freight line through a rugged, slide-prone canyon from
northern Mendocino County to Eureka.
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Rail executive director
resigns
By John Driscoll The
Times-Standard
Thursday, May 08, 2003
The North Coast Railroad Authority's executive
director is quitting to go to work for a Wisconsin
company.
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NCRA PRESS
RELEASE
NCRA executive director resigns
Ukiah, CA– May 7. 2003 – The North Coast Railroad
Authority (NCRA) announced today that they have accepted
the resignation of Executive Director Douglas Christy.
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Skunk Train under new
management
By Claudia Reed - Staff
Writer - Willits News
Wed Apr 23
13:05:08 2003 -- Life-saving loan comes through
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SMART Station Area
Planning Work Begins
(from SMART Email Update)
April 18, 2003
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City grants loan for Skunk Train
By Tony Reed of the Advocate
- March 20, 2003
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Woolley resigns from rail
board on technicality
By John Driscoll The
Times-Standard
March 04, 2003 -
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Railroad seeking $52
million in federal funding
By John Driscoll
- The
Times-Standard
February 20, 2003
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NCRA
opens Ukiah office
By MARK HEDGES/The
Daily Journal
January
31, 2003
The
North Coast Railroad Authority has moved its office to
Ukiah from Cloverdale.
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NCRA: Changes, new developments
Mendocino County Railroad
Society Newsletter
November 2002
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TY to spend $96,000 on
depot
Published on November 19, 2002
JOSE L. SANCHEZ JR.
- THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
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mber 5DOUG
CHRISTY TO RUN RAILROAD
Published on November 5, 2002
Bob Norberg - The Press Democrat
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THE
HUMBOLDT BEACON
October 23,2002
By Leanne Whitten
The North Coast Railroad
Authority has a new conductor. Assistant Executive
Director Doug Christy was unanimously approved by the
NCRA Board of Directors Oct. 16 to step up as executive
director of the agency.
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The
Times-Standard
Thursday, September
12, 2002
Woolley hops aboard rail authority
By John Driscoll
EUREKA -- In a bid to add
some clout to the railroad effort, Humboldt County
supervisors elected one of their own to the North Coast
Railroad Authority on Tuesday.
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THE
PRESS DEMOCRAT September 9, 2002
City plans $168,000
renovation of historical building, site
By UCILIA WANG
UKIAH -- Despite the broken
glass and graffiti, the 73-year-old train depot in
downtown Ukiah still radiates an alluring mystique that
hints at its importance to the city's history.
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The Times-Standard
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Railroad sale would take
act of Legislature
The railroad authority
doesn't have the power to sell the North Coast's
railroad without an act of the state Legislature.
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The Times-Standard
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Rail authority takes leap
of faith
By John Driscoll
EUREKA -- An act of God
shut it down, and it may take an act of God to open it
up again.
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Press Democrat Friday
August 9, 2002
Proposal aims to reopen
railroad
$61 million plan would
reopen Northwestern Pacific to Eureka
By Bob Norberg
Freight trains could be
running on the southern half of the Northwestern Pacific
Railroad by next summer and through the Eel River Canyon
by 2006 under a $61 million proposal being floated by
the railroad's governing board.
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The Times-Standard
Thursday, August 08, 2002
Prepare railroad tracks for El Niño, county warns
By James Tressler
Fearing a return this winter of the 1998 El Niño storms
that wiped out the North Coast's only railroad, the
Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday called
for emergency preparations to prevent further damage to
the line.
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The Humboldt
Beacon July 25, 2002
Railroad board considers
revised purchase proposal
By Leann Whitten
Ted Niemeyer, a Illinois developer who wants to
re-establish the railroad to the North Coast, has again
revised his proposal to acquire North Coast Railroad
Authority's property, this time with a little bite.
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The
Times-Standard
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Niemeyer takes a whack at rail authority, clarifies
offer
John Driscoll
Chicago-area railroad suitor Ted Niemeyer clarified his
offer to buy the North Coast Railroad in a letter to the
North Coast Railroad Authority this week, and took a
stab at the authority and staff for failing to get the
crumbling line fixed.
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The Press
Democrat July 18, 2002
ASSEMBLYMAN TO DISCUSS
RAIL BILL
BYLINE: Spencer
Soper
A proposed
commuter rail system linking Sonoma and Marin counties
will be the subject of a public meeting held by
Assemblyman Joe Nation in San Rafael on Friday.
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The Press Democrat
July 18, 2002
TRACKSIDE CAMPS WARNED
BYLINE: ANDREA
A. QUONG
South of Petaluma
where the town unravels into a loose weave of industrial
yards, highway overpasses and parched hills, homeless
people have made camps, mostly out of view, in pockets
of open space along the railroad tracks.
Story |
Sonoma-Marin commuter rail gets
railroad approval
Rail authority OKs project after
change to bill's wording
July 17, 2002
By SPENCER SOPER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Following weeks of negotiations with
passenger train backers, a North Coast railroad owner
concerned about maintaining access for freight trains
has withdrawn its opposition to a state bill that would
create a Sonoma-Marin commuter rail district.
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North
Coast Journal July 11, 2002
Holy
roller not giving up
by
ANDREW
EDWARDS
Ted
Niemeyer of Niemeyer and Associates and the newly formed
Eel River Railroad are not going away.
Story |
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THE PRESS
DEMOCRAT July 11, 2002
HEALDSBURG MAKES INROADS
ON NEW TRAIL
BYLINE: SAM
KENNEDY
Pedestrians and
bicyclists would course through Healdsburg with little
interference from automobile traffic under the City
Council's plan to convert railroad right of way
into a multiuse trail.
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ONLY 1 BID TO REOPEN RAIL LINE
Published on June 28, 2002
© 2002- The Press Democrat
BYLINE: BOB NORBERG
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
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The
Times-Standard
Sunday,
June 16, 2002
Authority should have
equal parts faith and doubt for railroad suitor
The Chicago-area
railman who wants to buy the North Coast railroad
portends to be a miracle worker when he says he'll have
the line open within a year.
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The
Times-Standard Tuesday June 11,
2002
For real? Railroad suitor
offers formal bid
By James Tressler
EUREKA -- A
Chicago-area man who says he wants to buy the North
Coast's railroad -- and get it back in business within a
year -- apparently is for real.
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Times-Standard Tuesday,
May 21, 2002
Railroad suitor still in
the game
By John Driscoll
A Chicago-area rail man
said he is still looking to buy the North Coast
Railroad, and believes he can open at least part of the
line within a year.
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The Times-Standard
Monday May 13, 2002
Rail Service is vital to California's harbors
By
James Quinn
The draft of Caltrans’ new 25-year transportation
plan underscores the need for adequate railroad
facilities at California’s harbors.
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The Press
Democrat
May 10, 2002
REASON FOR OPTIMISM ON TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
BYLINE: BILL KORTUM and MIKE HAUSER
As Press Democrat Editorial Director Pete Golis
chronicled in a recent column, reaching consensus on
solutions to our transportation and traffic problems has
been an on-again, off-again romance.
Story |
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North Coast Journal
May
2,02002
More trouble on the tracks
The North Coast Railroad
Authority could have another obstacle to overcome before
it can re-establish railroad service in Humboldt County.
Story |
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The Press Democrat
April 30, 2002
MAYOR'S VIEW OF CLOVERDALE'S FUTURE CLOSE TO HOME
BYLINE: BOB JEHN
Cloverdale residents will gladly accept the award for
being the ``most optimistic community in California''
and for good reasons. But not for the reasons George
Rose enumerates in his Close to Home column, which
appeared on the Forum page of the April 22 Press
Democrat.
Story |
North
Coast Journal
May 2,02002
Too
Good to be True?
There may not be many trains on the Northwestern Pacific
rail line in the next few months, but the North Coast
Railroad Authority is looking for someone to serve as an
operator.
Story |
Humboldt Beacon
May 2, 2002
Railroad
Legislation Still in Contention
by Rhett Stephens
San Francisco -- Directors of the North Coast
Railroad Authority traveled to San Francisco on Monday
in an attempt to clear a new obstacle from the tracks of
the rail line that they are trying to restore
Story |
The
Press Democrat April
26,2002
Rail
Backers Push for Vote
Commuter
crunch: Supporters of passenger train linking Sonoma,
Marin counties optimistic sales tax can win in 2004
despite dismal history, strong opposition
By
Spencer Soper
Once
overshadowed by efforts to widen Highway 101, a proposed
commuter rail system linking Sonoma and Marin counties
is taking center stage in the region's long-running
debate over raising taxes to improve transportation.
Story
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North
Coast Journal
Thursday
April 25, 2002
Supervisors:
Amend Rail Bill
Citing
fears that the North Coast will be left out of railroad
redevelopment, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors
voted Friday to ask for amendments to a bill currently
in the state Legislature.
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The
Times-Standard Tuesday,
April 23, 2002
Board
Backs Amendments to Railroad Bill
By James Tressler
EUREKA
-- In a special session on Friday, the Humboldt County
Board of Supervisors unanimously backed amendments to a
state bill railroad advocates say threaten North Coast
rail interests.
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Humboldt
bEACON - aPRIL
17, 2002
Legislation
Threatens Re-establishment of Rail Lines
by
RHETT STEPHENS
The tracks remain dormant on the ground while
things remain up in the air
for the re-establishment of rail service to Humboldt
County...
Story |
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The
Times-Standard
Wednesday,
April 17, 2002 \
Supes
Want Bill to Support Rail Line
By
James Tressler
EUREKA
-- Humboldt County supervisors on Tuesday asked alarmed
railroad advocates to back off outright opposition to a
state Assembly bill the advocates say could permanently
put the North Coast out of the railroad business...
Story |
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THE
PRESS DEMOCRAT - April 14, 2002
RAIL
DISTRICT BILL STIRS DEBATE
BYLINE:
SPENCER SOPER
Proponents
of commuter rail in Sonoma and Marin counties are
pushing state legislation that would create a new
political district and, they believe, make it easier to
pass a sales tax to support the train system...
Story |
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The
Times-Standard
Saturday,
April 13, 2002
Contract
for Port of Humboldt Bay plan awarded
By
John Driscoll
A panel of harbor-side agencies awarded a
contract to work up a revitalization plan for the Port
of Humboldt Bay to a Portland, Ore., firm which will
hire a local group to assist...
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North
Coast Journal, Wednesday March 28, 2002
Is
railroad suitor for real?
An
Illinois developer has expressed an interest in buying
some of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad line -- but
his desire may be hard to realize.
Story |
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The
Times-Standard,
Tuesday,
March 26, 2002
Rail
purchase eyed less warily
By
John Driscoll
North
Coast railroad officials are still dubious about an
Illinois group's pitch to buy the Northwestern Pacific
Railroad after hearing from the group's lead man last
week.
Story |
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Times-Standard
- Editorial - Wednesday, March 20, 2002
Let
the man make his rail purchase pitch
It's
not every day that someone says he want to buy a
railroad. That has just happened, however, and it raises
questions about just where things stand with the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad and where they are going.
Or not going.
Story |
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Ukiah Daily Journal -
March 12, 2002
Park
planned for site near depot
By
MARK HEDGES
The
much-abused Perkins Street Railroad Depot site will soon
have a "pocket park" adjacent to it. Picture
the area there: yes, the depot itself is historical, but
vandalized, and its future use remains unknown.
Presented to the City Council last week, were plans for
the vacant land on the opposite side of Gibson Creek
from the depot between Perkins Street and the
"creek."
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Times-Standard
Sunday,
March 2, 2001
The
Railroad Benefits All Business
By
J Warren Hockaday
Much
has been written lately about the effort to restore rail
service to the region. It has become an incredibly
complex process involving layer upon layer of regulatory
and bureaucratic oversight. As the proponents of the
rail strive to make progress, the need for broad-based
public support is critical.
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The
Humboldt Beacon, Thursday, February 28, 2002
Railroad
Plan A Moves Forward
By
RHETT STEPHENS
For
80 years, the trains ran. The whistles blew, and the
engines chugged along, carrying freight between Humboldt
County and the Bay Area.
Story |
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The
Press Democrat - February 22, 2002
HISTORIC
RAIL CARS TO BE SOLD
By
Bob Norberg
The North Coast
Railroad Authority is putting its fleet of historic rail
cars up for sale rather than let them suffer the ravages
of the weather and vandals. The cars include 14
passenger cars from the 1950s that were part of the
Coast Daylight and Shasta Daylight fleets.
Story |
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Times-Standard
Thursday, February 21, 2002
Federal
funds won't go to southern part of railroad for now
By
John Driscoll
EUREKA -- In what
appears a small victory for railroad proponents in
northern Humboldt County, the North Coast Railroad
Authority voted to shelve a project that might shift
disaster funds to the southern part of the rail line and
away from work needed in the Eel River Canyon.
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