Camp Pendleton, Naval Base San Diego use freight trains to transport heavy military equipment and supplies
Coastal erosion in Del Mar and a slow-moving landslide in San Clemente threaten the only rail connection to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Naval Base San Diego, the principal home of the Pacific Fleet.
A long-term rail shutdown would have slow, but wide-reaching effects, said Joel Sutherland, supply chain management professor at the University of San Diego and a former executive for CSX Transportation, a 190-year-old East Coast railroad company. San Diego’s railroad is part of the nationwide Strategic Rail Corridor Network, which consists of 38,800 miles of track serving 193 military installations, including maritime ports such as San Diego where troops leave for overseas deployments. The rail segment from San Diego to Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast, known as the LOSSAN corridor, carries millions of passengers and about $1 billion in commercial freight each year.
“While the federal funding we’ve gotten so far will help secure the tracks, we are going to need a much more significant federal investment to permanently protect the rail corridor,” Levin said. “Delivering that investment will continue to be one of my top priorities.” Rail freight transportation by private contractors such as BNSF Railway, which serves San Diego County, is essential to the U.S. military. Because of that, the Defense Department has designated the Strategic Rail Corridor Network to support the movement of heavy and over-sized equipment.
“Rail transportation is extremely important to DOD since the predominance of our heavy and tracked vehicles will deploy by rail to seaports of embarkation,” according to the GlobalSecurity website.
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