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Date: 02/03/19 08:04
The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: walstib

Here are a few photos of yesterday's washout at Faria Beach that disrupted Amtrak service north of Ventura.

The rain and mudflow washed away the ballast, and coated a section of the adjacent Pacific Coast Highway with mud.

Union Pacific was out there last night putting things back together, and Caltrans was scraping up mud on the highway.

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/19 09:40 by walstib.



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Date: 02/03/19 09:11
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: jp1822

Did they cancel the Starlight?

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Date: 02/03/19 09:23
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: TiBike

The website says it's still running. But the website will still let you book Surfliners to Santa Barbara too. No mention of changes to the Starlight schedule or routing.

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Date: 02/03/19 09:37
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: walstib

Despite the message posted on Amtrak's Web site earlier this morning, it now appears trains are running as usual north of Oxnard. It's a fluid situation, I imagine.

I'm glad I'm not a passenger trying to make travel decisions today.
 

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Date: 02/03/19 09:57
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: PHall

They can clear the tracks and dump ballast and make it good enough for a 10 mph slow order pretty quickly.
Problem is that there's another storm on the way...

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Date: 02/03/19 10:05
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: walstib

Here's a quick snap of last night's cleanup operation. This was about 10.

CHP had the road closed while crews scraped up mud, so this was about as close as I could get.

Everything was back together by this morning.

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Date: 02/03/19 14:44
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: 567Chant

Thanx for the photo documentation. I reside ≈ 27 miles southeast of the location.
In 24 hours my backyard rain gauge indicated a skosh under 3 inches of rain.
...Lorenzo

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Date: 02/04/19 09:27
Re: The Washout At Faria Beach
Author: PHall

As you can see in the first picture, this is one of the areas where the fires burned all the way down to the tracks.
So there was nothing holding the dirt and water back when the heavy rains came.
Slides and washouts are the end result.

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