The North Coast Railroad
operated freight trains on the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional shortline railroad utilizing a stretch of the 271 mile mainline between Schellville and Windsor with freight and Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) commuter trains. Formerly, it was a reg ...
from
Schellville (interchange with the California Northern) to
Eureka
Eureka (often abbreviated as E!, or Σ!) is an intergovernmental organisation for research and development funding and coordination. Eureka is an open platform for international cooperation in innovation. Organisations and companies applying th ...
. Using former
Southern Pacific Railroad EMD GP9
The EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between 1954 and 1959. The GP9 succeeded the GP7 as the second model of EMD's General Purpose (GP) line, incorporating a new sixteen- cylin ...
s and EMD
GP7s, they powered freight along the northern and southern end of the line until 1994 when the southern portion from
Schellville to
Willits of the line was leased to the
California Northern Railroad
The California Northern Railroad is one of several Class III short-line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. It operates over Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) tracks (now Union Pacific Railroad) under a long-term lease.
The CFN ...
, which operated over the line until 1996 when the southern end began operations as the "new" publicly owned Northwestern Pacific.
The North Coast Railroad continued operations between Willits and Eureka on the former Eureka Southern route until 1993, when the line was shut down due to rail wash-outs and two expensive tunnel collapses.
References
Defunct California railroads
Railway companies established in 1992
Railway companies disestablished in 1996
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