ALL ABOARD A Southern Pacific Railroad saddleback locomotive and an excursion car at Loma Prieta Depot above Aptos Creek, 1889.
NOVEMBER 12 -18, 2021 | PAJARO VALLEY MAGAZINE
Courtesy Pajaro Valley Historical Association
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BY JOHANNA MILLER
Historian edits, publishes the work of late author Ronald G. Powell
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t was a moment of sheer luck that historian and author Derek R. Whaley, while doing research for his own book, discovered the work of the late Ronald G. Powell. Whaley owns local publishing company Zayante Publishing and is the author of the Santa Cruz Trains series, which documents
the rise and fall of the railroading industry in Santa Cruz County. He’d been having a difficult time finding history of the Loma Prieta Branch that ran from Aptos through the Forest of Nisene Marks. So, he reached out to UC Santa Cruz Librarian Emeritus Stanley D. Stevens, who sent over a large PDF containing one of Powell’s manuscripts.
