Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What does a museum exhibit in Washington DC have to do with a tourist train in Santa Cruz? And what does that have to do with a controversial light rail demonstration? And what does that have to do with a train that might launch sometime in the 2030s? Find out, and enjoy the detours along the way (like a banana farm in Guatemala and the owner of DC's streetcars).

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:58 "America on the Move" Smithsonian
1:58 The Jupiter & the Santa Cruz Railroad
3:41 Santa Cruz Today: Big Trees & Pacific
5:07 The future of rail in Santa Cruz
6:02 Coast Futura Controversy
7:06 Measure D
7:31 When will this start construction?