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As I used to live literally next to these tracks and still maintain ties in this region, I'll try to build this article up! cluth 11:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is it accurate to say Caltrain uses the Coast Line? Caltrain owns the ROW between San Francisco and CP Lick (MP 51.64). South of CP Lick the ROW is owned by Union Pacific. Union Pacific also owns the ROW north and east from CP Coast (MP 44.6), just north of the Santa Clara station.

Move to different parenthetical?

I don't think the current name adequately disambiguates from Coastal line (Sri Lanka), possibly Coast Lines, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. I think this article should probably be moved to Coast Line (California), which more concisely describes this piece of infrastructure. -MJ (talk) 19:05, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Coast Line (California) per nom. The parenthetical (railroad) is generally used for railroad companies, not rail lines, and isn't very useful here. (California) is unambiguous and more accurate here. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Coast Line (California) per nom. 〜 Adflatuss • talk 21:13, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

East Bay lines

Just curious if anyone has authority on knowing if the East Bay line between San Jose and Oakland is generally considered part of the Coast Line? UP does consider the line from its connection with the Niles sub at Elmhurst to San Jose as part of the Coast Subdivision. SP wrote a fairly comprehensive history of their California lines that has been useful as a public domain source, and it would be fairly easy to get it noted here. The Niles Subdivision already has an article, and that probably stands on its own as an article. But generally going by the way this article is set up, it seems the rest of the Coast sub could get mention here. I think this is warranted as the Coast line operations seemed to be at least very closely tied to the East Bay lines (e.g. see Lark (train) and mentions of the Oakland Lark), even if they weren't strictly the main focus. -MJ (talk) 02:38, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]