Ventura and Ojai Valley Railroad

The railway required grades as steep as three percent following the Ventura River upstream through Chrisman, Wadstrom, Ortonville, and then turning east through Mira Monte into Ojai.

[2] The line completed by Captain John Cross in 1898 became a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1899.

Trains leaving Ojai at 07:20 and 16:00 made passenger stops at Grant (near Rotary Community Park), Tico, Las Cross, and Weldons before turning around at Ventura to return to Ojai at 13:00 and 20:15.

[2] A Pineapple Express beginning on January 18, 1969 caused the largest and most damaging recorded flood on the Ventura River watershed.

[2] The upstream portion of the rail line from Foster Park to Ojai, abandoned in 1969, became the Ojai Valley Trail completed in 1989; the remaining downstream portion of the line was later opened as the Ventura River Trail in October of 1999.