Good news for the Skunk Train: Save the Redwoods League has purchased a $300,000 option “to establish an easement protecting redwoods and ensuring public access along the 40-mile Skunk Train route,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle today. Repairs of the collapsed tunnel will start immediately, and Skunk CEO Robert Pinoli “expects the train to be up and running from Willits to Northspur by the beginning of next month, with full service restored by mid-July.” The $300,000 option will be a “credit towards the purchase price,” for either a conservation easement or a public access easement, Save the Redwoods chief operating officer Harry Pollack told the Chronicle. The Skunk Train will use the $300,000 “to open the tunnel and we will have the land appraised and figure out in the coming year what we want to buy.” The Skunk Train has been raising funds online on the crowd-funding website gofundme and elsewhere. Gofundme has raised more than $50,000, and in a recent gofundme update Pinoli said, with other funds coming in, the Skunk was nearing the halfway point towards its $300,000 goal. “All money raised above our goal,” Pinoli wrote on gofundme, “will be used for other projects, like a new roof on our Roundhouse [or] to restore a caboose and a vintage fleet of passenger coaches.”
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:05:58 +0000
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