After 67 years, a train rolled out of the city of Windsor on Saturday, with 80 souls aboard.
It was the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District’s latest expansion of a transit route that snakes from Larkspur in Marin County to Healdsburg and Cloverdale in Sonoma County.
The train system sits on refurbished tracks of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, which last carried passengers in 1958. State lawmakers created the SMART district in 2002, but the rail service did not start carrying passengers along a 43-mile section of rail until 2017 — but that didn’t include the route’s three northernmost stations in Windsor, Healdsburg and Cloverdale…