The Mendocino Railway has been approved for a loan from the US Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau, to help expand and rehabilitate rail infrastructure in Mendocino County. The railway will share almost $31 and a half million with the Sierra Northern Railway in the Central Valley. The loan will finance nearly 100 percent of rehabilitating the Noyo Canyon Tunnel No. 1, along with 27 bridges and 40 miles of track.