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Things were better before I was alive!

Eat at the Samoa Cook House too! Great history, great food tremendous staff.

What location does video start and what direction are you driving?

It's now 2 years later. What's the current status?

Great video brother

My son is special needs and he loves trains 🚆🚂🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋 they are one of his favorite things in the whole world 🌎. He hopes things will get better and better for you like the entire line getting restored to connect with Union Pacific and getting passenger cars for use on the line. He also recommends FMW Solutions for help in restoring your steam locomotives because steam engine restoration is one of their primary functions. They have already helped restore steam locomotives like ATSF 3751, US Sugar 148, Southern 4501 and 630 and right now they are restoring Pennsylvania 1361, Pere Marquette 1225, Oregon Rail and Navigation 197, and a Atlantic Coast Line 4-6-2 Pacific.

i would like to see railbiking as well.

These were great plans. The passenger operation did have TRUE and REAL expansion possibilities.But Brian Whipple of the Eureka Southern railroad never had the base level carloadings promised by the Southern Pacific. There was to be some financial assistance from various sources to help repair and offset the huge costs of maintaining this slippery piece of railroad that never materialized either. So while this train was always full and by itself made money it was a drop in the bucket compared to what the repair and maintenance costs were to keep this line between Willits and Eureka operating. Too bad.

My son is special needs and he loves trains 🚆🚊🚋🛤🚞🚝🚉🚈🚇🚅🚄🚃🚂 especially speeders like that one. He at first had never heard of this railroad before but now finds it very interesting and hopes the entire line is preserved, restored, and used again for both freight and passenger trains.

The song is featured on A Treasury of Railroad Songs and Ballads Volume 1 from Shiloh Records.

Lookin' good, I hope it will roll.

The entire line should be restored to connect with the UP. Tourism, with less car traffic is a big win!

So how many pieces of rail rolling stock got stranded up there? I am up there overnight every Thursday and I still accidentally find cars still on rails here and there.

is the train cars locos saved or ? 🚅🚅🚃

What year was this taken? The trees are so small!

Nice movies

Awesome video 🚂👍🚃

There is an irrational ecofraud element in Eureka that wants to see all rail erased from existence using the fake/false/lying cause of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION by elimination of rail. These ECOFRAUDS drive their oilbased polluting cars up and down taxpayer supported pollution spewing steets.They live and use fosil fueled electricity in their homes which were built with material transported by rails while telling everyone how railroads active or otherwise continue to destroy the world.....hhhhmmmm....

Very cool. Hope you all can get the railroad running.

‘Tis a shame that this train ain’t running anymore, and what’s an even bigger shame is that a small number of the former Shasta Daylight cars that were used for this train were set ablaze by some arsonists somewhen in the neighborhood of the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, and the resulting damage from the arson was so bad that the affected cars had to be scrapped, and those cars had even been used on the 1984 World’s Fair Daylight behind the 4449.

Oh nice!! I was really hoping for freight service to come back to Humboldt bay! But a tourist train would be great at longest the trains are revived it would be good if only a big railroad company like the union pacific or the bnsf could make a move to own a large portion all the way to eureka because that port needs rail service as well especially hauling logs and wood chips! Please keep us updated!👍 thanks for the history

You should look up Railbanking and how it is used by a rail-to-trails activist to permanently remove tracks. The Humboldt Bay Scenic Railroad will never happen if the plan to Railbank the tracks is carried out. Check out the video on the "TSG Multimedia" channel called "The Greenway Controversy Demystified" and go to the 30-minute mark to learn more about Railbanking.

I didn't know there was footage of the daylight. Where was this found?

Was that an Alco?

The 80s

What year was this

Is that John porter owner of the benbow inn ?

Every time I drive through there it is sad to see the abandoned track

Man I wish the railroad was still running

so sad north coast daylight not running any more 😢

So with the recently passed legislation that officially dissolved the NCRA and created the Great Redwood Trail Agency, has THA considered or tried purchasing the 16 miles of track between Samoa and Eureka, or has the GRTA offered to sell those tracks to you? It seems like the GRT is only planned as far north as Eureka, connecting with the Humboldt Bay Trail to continue to Arcata, with no current plan to extend the trail to Samoa thus leaving those tracks in place as well as the tracks between Eureka and Arcata. It would seem to make sense for GRTA to sell those tracks to THA so they can focus on just the trail, and allow THA to more easily restore those tracks for excursion train service.

Great video! Spent a lot of days on the NWP back in the '80s.

Nothing better than a squarebody!

I traveled through the area back in 2019 and there something I find really alluring about the NWP railroad. It's really unfortunate it didn't survive.

great short video

Out on the bay

Is there anyway to get it out on the mainline?

Awesome 🚅👍happy new year 🎆

Ya now the rails can be shiny

Sweet! Looks like the new workhorse.

Love it, keep them coming!

Any plans to remove the graffiti on the bridge at some point?

great short video

It's nice to see the high railer out very cool

You'd be a great tour guide when the speeders are back on the tracks. You do a terrific job providing historic background while imagining a future of new ridership on these rails. I'd love to see them running between Samoa & Eureka, and also down to Fortuna and up to Arcata.

Why anyone would wear a face diaper while out in the fresh ocean air is beyond me, but I loved the content!

Truly awesome. Thank's so vary much for all your hard work. We need a train around the bay. The county needs to help save all the historical structures, the investment of a train around the bay is the best idea 💡 in long time. This rich history of sawmills fishing and old town should be 100% supported and funded by county taxpayers if needed. It would bring tourists from around the world. This needs to happen before all the infrastructure and buildings are truly gone... :( Thanks again!

Great video, thanks for posting it. I do have a couple quick notes and corrections. First, Eureka Southern bought the line north of Willits in September 1984, they declared bankruptcy at the very end of 1986. The bankruptcy trustee ran the railroad until the North Coast Railroad took over on 1 April 1992. Second, I'm almost certain the enginehouse shown at the 4:46 and 9:56 marks is the one D&C had over at Bucksport. D&C finished logging their timber in the Fieldbrook area in 1930, after which time they sold the old Humboldt Northern to the Little River Redwood Company and shifted their operations to the Elk River drainage southeast of Eureka. D&C bought the old Bucksport & Elk River Railroad, over which they hauled logs down to a log dump in Bucksport. In 1933 they extended that line north along the bay to a new log dump, which is seen in this video at the 9:16 mark, some of the trestlework pilings and the log dump structure itself are still in place out in the bay a little ways north of Bayshore Mall, off the Palco Marsh trail. The D&C mill lay in what is now the grassy field underneath the east end of the Samoa bridge, logs would be rafted to it from the two log dumps, the one Sean talks about here until 1930 and then the one down by Bayshore Mall afterwards. Again, thanks for posting it!