Coast Line (SP)
The Coast Line is a railroad line between Burbank, California and the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast. It is the shortest rail route from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.
The first version of the Coast line, via Saugus and Santa Paula through the Santa Clara River Valley, was completed by the Southern Pacific Railroad on December 31, 1900. The Montalvo Cutoff crossed the Santa Clara River to serve the farmers in the Oxnard Plain and was extended to Santa Susana in Simi Valley. The Santa Susana Tunnel opened in 1904 connecting with the Chatsworth cutoff from Burbank (34°14′57″N 119°12′46″W / 34.24917°N 119.2129°W) and thereafter was the main line. In 1907, the Bayshore Cutoff opened from San Bruno 37°37′52″N 122°24′43″W / 37.631°N 122.412°W to San Francisco; in 1935 the new line around San Jose opened from 37°20′29″N 121°54′46″W / 37.3414°N 121.9127°W to 37°17′05″N 121°50′34″W / 37.2848°N 121.8427°W and thereafter was the main line. Ownership is now with Caltrain north of Santa Clara (about 37°21′23″N 121°56′36″W / 37.35649°N 121.94336°W), and Union Pacific Railroad, which merged with the Southern Pacific (SP) in 1996, from there to the north end of Moorpark (about 34°17′06″N 118°53′28″W / 34.28488°N 118.891°W) and Metrolink south of there. In the golden era of passenger service SP trains on the San Francisco leg of this route ran from the Third and Townsend Depot in San Francisco to the Union Station in Los Angeles. The Oakland-Los Angeles trains originated from the 16th Street Station in Oakland.
...
Wikipedia