Del Mar Bluff Collapse Train

by | Dec 11, 2019 | Del Mar, Jim's Take on the Market | 9 comments

This reminded me of the time Bruce Springsteen said, “Blind faith in your leaders will get you killed.”

9 Comments

  1. Alvin An Luckenbach
    Alvin An Luckenbach on December 11, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    Are those concrete cassions designed to keep the train tracks from tumbling down? Some reporter should ask whoever’s in charge of maintenance, is it NCTD? Wonder when those were installed?

  2. Jim the Realtor
    Jim the Realtor on December 12, 2019 at 5:32 am

    The mayor said the bluff has collapsed before at this spot, so those caissons may have been a retrofit?

  3. M
    M on December 12, 2019 at 11:53 am

    It might look precarious, but it’s really hard to tell by looking. I assume they have had engineers evaluate it and determine that it’s safe to run trains for the time being, at least.

  4. Jim the Realtor
    Jim the Realtor on December 12, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    Agree, and I’m no engineer so who cares what I think. But those caissons better go way deep!

  5. Eddie89
    Eddie89 on December 12, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    I wonder if each time the train travels over that spot (even if at a slow pace), all that weight is producing vibrations that are travelling down those pillars and making that bluff even more precarious!

    Yikes!!!

  6. John
    John on December 12, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    We lived in Del Mar in 2006 when those cassions were installed. They put them in all along the bluff and at that time we heard they would protect the train track for several decades. At this rate of failure there won’t be train service into San Diego for much longer.

  7. Tom
    Tom on December 12, 2019 at 5:52 pm

    Dig a deep port there and offload train loads to cargo ships to move to south ports. They ain’t bothered by rising seas

  8. Jim the Realtor
    Jim the Realtor on December 12, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    Love it! We need more yachts!

  9. Rob_Dawg
    Rob_Dawg on December 16, 2019 at 10:20 am

    I am an engineer (sorta) and the caissons are there because the risk was addressed and the cure most likely contributed to the pattern/extent of the erosion. A new unnatural point of future slides. Big deal. Understand. The railroads CUT into the hills to make their coastal track. They didn’t build for centuries or service, they built for many decades and given how much longer their work has lasted they did a very good job.

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