After a absense of almost a decade, June of 2009 brought railroading back into my own back yard! Little by little restoration of 60 miles of the North Western Pacific railroad began. Work trains started to roll, ties where replaced, ballast was dumped. Towards the end of the summer the weeds where gone, and people where saying "My god, I never knew there was a railroad under all that brush". To put it lightly rail service in the northern reagions of San Francisco bay has been sporadic for the past 15 or so years. So a trian roling through the beautiful Marin/Sonoma country side is a sight for a die hard NWP fan's sore eyes...