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Once upon a time, there was a small but noble rail network. It was clean, tidy and efficient. But the car had come after the Golden Gate was built so there were not enough people to ride the train, only a scant 52,907 lived in the county in 1940. More enterprising men might have dynamited the cliffs to dig out a path for a rail line to cross the bridge. But it was not to be. The old lines were forgotten, paved over into bike paths and roads. The power lines which once brought clean hydroelectric power 150 miles from the Sierras, crumpled into dust.
Now the population of the little county sits at 260,651 people. A train just barely running takes you from the north into San Rafael, but no farther. We will see if people take the train.
