LOS ANGELES — When heavy rains and high surf from Tropical Storm Kay battered much of Southern California's seaboard this month, the ground shifted — ever so slightly — under the railroad along San Clemente's coast.
It wasn't the first time.
The movement in the railway's foundation caused short-term delays for Metrolink riders as officials attempted to mitigate the worsening erosion near the oceanfront rail line, threatened by a fragile landscape that also poses danger to expensive homes perched on a nearby bluff.
