By Reggie Ellis, The Foothills Sun-Gazette; October 11, 2017
EXETER – Train travel might be vintage but is it charming? The Exeter Chamber of Commerce isn’t so sure that the return of passenger rail to the small town would be so charming if the station is going to push them out of their building and build a large retail shopping center to cast a shadow on the single-story buildings of its historic downtown.
The train station, platform and associated retail buildings are part of a proposal to use 75 miles of existing railroad tracks to create a passenger rail line stretching from Huron to Porterville. As part of the Cross Valley Corridor Plan, the Tulare County Association of Governments is proposing to connect residents of Tulare and Kings Counties with the High Speed Rail station planned for western Hanford near the intersection of Highways 198 and 43. All of the Cross Valley Corridor Plan’s right-of-way has already been acquired by government entities that are part of the route. Stations would be built in Huron, Lemoore Naval Air Station, Hanford, HSR Kings-Tulare Station, Goshen, Visalia, Farmersville, Exeter, Lindsay and Porterville.
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