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Editorial: To save its coastal rail line, California will need to move it away from the ocean

Two Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains are parked in Santa Fe Depot in San Diego due to rail closures along the coast in San Clemente, California, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021.

The nation’s second-busiest intercity passenger train line is partially closed. Again.

A landslide in San Clemente has stopped rail service indefinitely between Orange and San Diego counties, a key segment of the 351-mile coastal rail corridor that runs between San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and San Diego.

This is the fifth time in three years that train service has been interrupted by hillside erosion in the area, upending people’s commutes, long-distance

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