Western Railroad Discussion > Cleaning Up Along The Coast

After being shut down on Saturday for storm cleanup, the coast line north of Los Angeles was back in business Sunday, with Amtrak running its normal schedule.

While there weren't any catastrophic failures from Friday's storm, a litany of issues stemming from downed trees, slides, flooding and erosion kept crews busy throughout the weekend.

In the first shot, a Herzog work train rolls past the palm tree farm at Faria Beach, on its way to Ventura. This train came down from Hinkle, Oregon to assist.

In the second shot, with the remnants of a tree in its claw, a Hitachi excavator cleans up along the right-of-way at Emma Wood State Beach.

In the third shot, the second of two Hitachi excavators assigned to the cleanup works to rebuild a portion of the right-of-way south of the Pacific Coast Highway bridge.

 

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Nice series, thanks!

I was curious about that little spot there by Emma Wood. Thanks for the look.

bird

SPbird Wrote:
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> I was curious about that little spot there by Emma
> Wood. Thanks for the look.
>
> bird

This spot is below the area that burned Christmas 2015.  Still getting some mud flows and debris in heavy rains.

It's a great place to camp in an RV. If you look one way you see the ocean. Look the other way and you see trains.
What could be better.

Moved out of the area in '98. My dad was park host there for a while and also at Casitas. I can remember listening for SP freights over the sounds of the beach during the mid 90s when ever we had a lengthy turn there. I was only a few years old then.

bird - now in the shadow of Oroville dam  

Josiah Wrote:
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> SPbird Wrote:
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> > I was curious about that little spot there by
> Emma
> > Wood. Thanks for the look.
> >
> > bird
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> This spot is below the area that burned Christmas
> 2015.  Still getting some mud flows and debris in
> heavy rains.


KB6GZ Wrote:
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> It's a great place to camp in an RV. If you look
> one way you see the ocean. Look the other way and
> you see trains.
> What could be better.