In 2020, Martin joined an investor group to revive the historic Santa Fe Southern Railway. “We’re bringing the railroad back,” he announced on his blog (called Not a Blog) after the purchase.

A former board member of the nonprofit, officially the Santa Fe Beautiful Committee Inc., Martinez spearheaded the fundraising campaign to purchase the caboose from the Santa Fe Southern Railway ...

On September 12, 1888, instruction began in the four-room cottage in Pomona with a student body of two college-aged students and 30 from high school or lower grades. The faculty of three included ...