Coast Line (California)
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The Coast Line is a railway line between Burbank, California and the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast. It is the shortest rail route between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Though
The Coast Starlight navigating a horseshoe curve on the lower Cuesta Grade near San Luis Obispo.
Southbound Coast Daylight, at Auzerais Street in San Jose in April 1970
Looking south at the junction of the Coast Subdivision (left) and Peninsula Corridor (right), Santa Clara (2022)
A Caltrain train (left) passes Union Pacific and Helm Leasing Company engines at South San Francisco, April 2014
Pacific Surfliner
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The Pacific Surfliner is a 350-mile passenger train service serving the communities on the coast of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo. The Pacific Surfliner is Amtrak's third-b
Coast Line (California)
…as busy as the Surf Line, the continuation of the Coast Line southbound to San Diego, it still sees freight movements and many passenger trains. The Pacific Surfliner, which runs from the San Diego Santa Fe Depot to San Luis Obispo via Union Station in Los Angeles, is the third busiest Amtrak route, and the busiest…
The San Diegan at Oceanside in 1985
Coach/baggage/cab car #6908 on the Pacific Surfliner on the Gaviota Coast in 2018
A Pacific Surfliner Siemens Charger locomotive at L.A. Union Station in 2022.
Lower-level seating on a "Pacific Business Class" car in 2012