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{{Short description|Commuter rail line in Southern California}}
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| color                           = {{rcr|Metrolink (California)|San Bernardino}}
| name                            = San Bernardino Line
| image                           = SanBernardinoStationStreetside.jpg
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| caption                         = Streetside of [[San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot]] in 2006
| type                            = [[Commuter rail]]
| system                          = [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]
| status                          = <!-- Only use when line is not operating normally -->
| locale                          = [[Greater Los Angeles Area]] and [[Inland Empire (California)|Inland Empire]]
| start                           = {{scax|L.A. Union Station}}
| end                             = {{scax|San Bernardino–Downtown}}
| stations                        = 17
| routes                          = 
| daily_ridership                 = 6,897 (weekdays, Q3 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2025 |title=Quarterly Fact Sheet Q3 January 2025-March 2025 |url=https://metrolinktrains.com/globalassets/about/agency/facts-and-numbers/fact_sheet_q1-fy25.pdf |access-date=July 22, 2025 |website=[[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]}}</ref>
| open                            = October 26, 1992
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| operator                        = [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]
| character                       = Elevated and surface-level
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The '''San Bernardino Line''' is a [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]] line running between [[Downtown Los Angeles]] east through the [[San Gabriel Valley]] and the [[Inland Empire]] to [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]], with limited service to [[Redlands, California|Redlands]]. It is one of the three initial lines on the original Metrolink system, along with the Santa Clarita Line (now the [[Antelope Valley Line]]) and the [[Ventura County Line]].

{{As of|January 2025}}, the line has 44 weekday trips (22 in each direction) with most trips operating between [[Los Angeles Union Station]] in the west and the [[San Bernardino Transit Center]] to the east, however 5 trips are short turns that only operate as far east as the [[Montclair Transcenter]] and 1 trip is extended past San Bernardino to serve [[Redlands–Downtown station]]. It was the first Metrolink line to run on both Saturday and Sunday, with 16 weekend trips (8 in each direction) operating between Los Angeles and San Bernardino.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metrolinktrains.com/globalassets/schedules/timetables/2025/allline-timetable_june2025.pdf|title=Metrolink Timetable|date=January 27, 2025|access-date=June 21, 2025}}</ref>

==Route==
The line is owned by Metrolink.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 2015 |title=Redlands Passenger Rail Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision/Environmental Impact Report |url=https://www.gosbcta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Final_EIS-EIR-RedlandsPassengerRailProject.pdf |website=}}</ref> After leaving Union Station and crossing the [[Los Angeles River]], the line follows the [[San Bernardino Freeway]] and [[El Monte Busway]] until just after the Cal State L.A. station; it then runs in the median of the San Bernardino Freeway to the El Monte Station along the former route of the [[Pacific Electric Railway]]'s [[Upland–San Bernardino Line|San Bernardino Line]]. Starting at El Monte, the line parallels the [[Union Pacific]]'s Sunset Route (ex-[[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]]) for a few miles before turning northeast at Bassett{{efn|{{coord|34.0507|-117.9971|display=inline}}}} onto a Southern Pacific branch. At the former Southern Pacific/[[Pacific Electric]]-[[ATSF|Santa Fe]] crossing,{{efn|{{coord|34.0939|-117.7303|display=inline}}}} it switches to the Santa Fe route; from Claremont to just west of San Bernardino it follows what was the Santa Fe's [[Pasadena Subdivision]] (and before that the Second District of the LA Division, the Santa Fe passenger main line). From San Bernardino Depot, the line follows the Santa Fe's Redlands branch line towards Downtown Redlands. The San Bernardino Line is mostly [[single track (rail)|single track]] with seven [[passing siding]]s and short sections of [[double track]] near Covina, between Pomona and Montclair, west of Fontana, and throughout San Bernardino.<ref name=schematics>{{CA rail schematics|page=19–20}}</ref>

==History==
[[Los Angeles County Transportation Commission]] acquired the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] Burbank Branch in 1992.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 22, 1992 |title=Metrolink to include S.B. County |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press/131312935/ |access-date=6 September 2023 |newspaper=Daily Press |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}}</ref> When the line opened on October 26, 1992, service extended only as far as Pomona.<ref name="ventura">{{cite news |title=Trains for L.A. – Metrolink commuter service begins today |author=Tony Knight |newspaper=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]] |date=October 26, 1992 }}</ref> It was incrementally extended to Claremont that December, Montclair the following February, then finally to San Bernardino in May 1993.<ref name="sanbernardino">{{cite news |title=Metrolink trains start from San Bernardino |newspaper=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]] |date=May 18, 1993 }}</ref> Saturday service was added in 1997 and Sunday service in 1998 making it the first Metrolink line to offer weekend service.

[[San Bernardino Associated Governments]] (SANBAG) completed an [[environmental impact report]] (EIR) in 2015<ref>{{cite news |last1=Emerson |first1=Sandra |date=March 4, 2015 |title=Redlands Passenger Rail Project environmental report gets SanBAG support |url=https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2015/03/04/redlands-passenger-rail-project-environmental-report-gets-sanbag-support/ |access-date=December 18, 2019 |work=Redlands Daily Facts |agency=}}</ref> to extend Metrolink service southeast from the current eastern terminus in San Bernardino to [[Redlands, CA|Redlands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-transit.html|title=Redlands Passenger Rail Project|publisher=[[SANBAG]]|access-date=February 17, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205180546/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-transit.html|archive-date=February 5, 2012}}</ref> The extension follows the {{convert|9|mi|km|adj=on}} [[Redlands Subdivision]] and comprises two projects.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/pdfs/RedlandsFactSheet.pdf |title=Redlands First Mile and Passenger Rail Project |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006215922/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/pdfs/RedlandsFactSheet.pdf |archive-date=October 6, 2010 }}</ref>

The [[Downtown San Bernardino]] Passenger Rail Project extended Metrolink southeast one mile via [[double track]]age{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} to a new terminus at the [[San Bernardino Transit Center]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/san-bernardino-transit.html|title=Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail Project|publisher=[[SANBAG]]|access-date=March 15, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306172908/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/san-bernardino-transit.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The project's [[groundbreaking]] was in February 2014;<ref name="Macduff1">{{cite news| url=http://www.pe.com/articles/transit-684265-morris-million.html| title=SAN BERNARDINO: Agencies pool money for transit center, Metrolink extension| website=The Press Enterprise| first=Cassie| last=Macduff| date=February 26, 2014}}</ref> at that time, the extension was expected to be completed by mid-2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-sb-rail/FINALSANBAGTransitRailHandout22114b.pdf|title=Destination: San Bernardino|publisher=[[SANBAG]]|access-date=March 15, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208015726/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-sb-rail/FINALSANBAGTransitRailHandout22114b.pdf|archive-date=February 8, 2016}}</ref> {{As of|2015|September}}, the completion date had been extended to 2017.<ref name="Hagen">{{cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20150908/san-bernardino-transit-center-opening-makes-commuting-easier|title=San Bernardino Transit Center opening makes commuting easier|last=Hagen|first=Ryan|date=September 8, 2015|newspaper=[[The San Bernardino Sun]]|access-date=March 15, 2016}}</ref> Construction work on the extension continued through March and April 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/SB-Rail-Alerts/02-01-16_3rd-StreetClosure_Flier.pdf|title=3rd Street Closure at Railroad Tracks|publisher=[[SANBAG]]|access-date=March 15, 2016|archive-date=February 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208021425/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/SB-Rail-Alerts/02-01-16_3rd-StreetClosure_Flier.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20170301/construction-to-interrupt-metrolink-service-in-inland-empire|title=Construction to interrupt Metrolink service in Inland Empire|last=Valenzuela|first=Beatriz|date=March 1, 2017|work=[[The San Bernardino Sun]]|access-date=May 5, 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20170417/metrolink-train-service-resumes-at-san-bernardino-rialto-stations|title=Metrolink train service resumes at San Bernardino, Rialto stations|date=April 17, 2017|work=[[The San Bernardino Sun]]|access-date=May 5, 2017|language=en}}</ref> Test trains began running on the tracks in April 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gosbcta.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/train-testing-to-begin-as-part-of-downtown-san-bernardino-passenger-rail-project/|title=Train Testing to Begin as Part of Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail Project|date=April 12, 2017|website=SBCTA Newsroom|publisher=[[San Bernardino County Transportation Authority]]|access-date=May 5, 2017|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114145340/https://gosbcta.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/train-testing-to-begin-as-part-of-downtown-san-bernardino-passenger-rail-project/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This phase of the project opened to the public on December 16, 2017.

[[Arrow (rail service)|Arrow]] is a rail extension to Redlands. By December 2015, SANBAG decided that this second phase of the project, from the San Bernardino Transit Center to Redlands, would no longer be a Metrolink extension, but rather an independent system.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} SANBAG planned to use [[diesel multiple unit]]s (DMUs) and have [[Omnitrans]] operate the system. However, San Bernardino Line [[Express train|express limited-stop trains]] would run on part of the extension, to a new station near the Downtown Redlands station.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2017/11/15/what-new-ownership-at-redlands-santa-fe-depot-could-mean-to-future-rail-service/|title=What new ownership at Redlands Santa Fe Depot could mean to future rail service|last=Emerson|first=Sandra|date=November 15, 2017|work=Redlands Daily Facts|access-date=January 8, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Emerson|first1=Sandra|title=Where Redlands rail project is heading
|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/project-811101-service-sanbag.html|access-date=May 1, 2017|newspaper=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=August 19, 2016}}</ref> Construction was planned to begin in 2017,<ref name="Emerson2">{{cite news|url=http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/general-news/20151107/sanbag-begins-design-of-redlands-passenger-rail-project|title=SanBAG begins design of Redlands Passenger Rail Project|last=Emerson|first=Sandra|date=November 7, 2015|newspaper=[[Redlands Daily Facts]]|access-date=March 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-sb-rail/RPRPFactSheetDecember2015.pdf|title=Redlands Passenger Rail Project Fact Sheet|date=December 2015|publisher=[[SANBAG]]|access-date=March 15, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222084057/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/projects/redlands-sb-rail/RPRPFactSheetDecember2015.pdf|archive-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2017/11/06/passenger-rail-project-remains-priority-for-rail-to-redlands-working-group/|title=Passenger rail project remains priority for Rail to Redlands Working Group|last=Emerson|first=Sandra|date=November 7, 2017|work=Redlands Daily Facts|access-date=January 8, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> however groundbreaking took place in July 2019 with a 2022 opening.<ref name="RDF">{{Cite web|url=http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/construction-begins-for-rail-connecting-redlands-to-san-bernardino|title=Construction begins for rail connecting Redlands to San Bernardino|work=Redlands Daily Facts|date=July 19, 2019}}</ref> The selected route runs between the Downtown San Bernardino station and the University of Redlands with stops at Tippecanoe Avenue, [[Esri]], and Downtown Redlands, adjacent to the [[Redlands Santa Fe Depot District|Redlands Santa Fe Depot]]. Omnitrans was removed as the system's operator in 2019 amid mounting deficits, and Metrolink took over construction and procurement.<ref name=520mil>{{cite news |last1=Scauzillo |first1=Steve |title=$520 million deficit has Omnitrans eyeing layoffs and bus-line reductions, but is it enough? |url=https://www.sbsun.com/2019/10/21/520-million-deficit-has-omnitrans-eyeing-layoffs-and-bus-line-reductions-but-is-it-enough/ |access-date=November 24, 2019 |agency=The Sun |date=October 21, 2019}}</ref> Arrow opened on October 24, 2022.<ref name="Arrow">{{cite news |last1=Asperin |first1=Alexa Mae |title=Metrolink's new 'Arrow' train service from Redlands to San Bernardino begins |url=https://www.sbsun.com/2022/10/24/metrolink-arrow-train-begins-redlands-to-san-bernardino-service/ |access-date=October 24, 2022 |work=[[KTTV]] |publisher=[[Fox Television Stations]] |date=October 24, 2022}}</ref> Arrow's DMU sets have been studied for wider deployment on the rest of the San Bernardino Line.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://myemail.constantcontact.com/goSBCTA-e-News---March-2017.html?soid=1115666283112&aid=EbT8aDyqdAI#LETTER.BLOCK62|title=Hybrid Rail Being Studied for Future Use along the Metrolink Corridor|date=March 2017|work=goSBCTA e-Newsletter|access-date=May 5, 2017|publisher=[[San Bernardino County Transportation Authority]]}}</ref> The rolling stock is the new [[EMD F125]], and others were [[MPI MPXpress]], [[EMD F59PH]], and some cab cars.

== Future development ==
The [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] (LA Metro) has plans to add the current [[LA General Medical Center station]] on the [[El Monte Busway]] as an [[infill station]] to the line. This would involve building a second track and center platform. The cost of this project is estimated between $51&nbsp;million and $110&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=numble |number=1671287371994677255 |title=LA Metro study on infill Metrolink station at LA General Medical Center (LA County-USC Medical Center). Would build a second track and center platform. Cost $51m-$110m (depends on if pedestrian bridge is built). Existing bridge is hard to retrofit.}}</ref> Currently, westbound Metrolink passengers must exit at the [[Cal State LA station]] and take any of the westbound buses one stop to the Medical Center.

== Stations ==
The San Bernardino Line has 15 full-time stations. They are, from west to east:
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
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! rowspan=2 | Station
! rowspan=2 | Connections
! colspan="2" | Location
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!City
!County
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| {{scax|L.A. Union Station}}
| {{rint|losangeles|metrolink}} [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]: {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|91/Perris Valley|inline=route}} {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Antelope Valley|inline=route}} {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Orange County|inline=route}} {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Riverside|inline=route}} {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Ventura County|inline=route}}<br />{{rint|us|amtrak}} [[Amtrak]]: ''[[Coast Starlight]]'', ''[[Pacific Surfliner]]'', ''[[Southwest Chief]]'', ''[[Sunset Limited]]'', ''[[Texas Eagle]]''<br />{{rint|losangeles|lacmta}} [[Los Angeles Metro|Metro]]: {{LACMTA icon|A|showtext=yes}} {{LACMTA icon|B|showtext=yes}} {{LACMTA icon|D|showtext=yes}} {{LACMTA icon|J|showtext=yes}}<br />{{rint|bus|link=FlyAway (bus)}} [[FlyAway (bus)|FlyAway]] to [[Los Angeles International Airport|LAX]] {{rint|air|link=FlyAway (bus)}}
| Los Angeles
| rowspan=8 | [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]]
|-
| {{scax|Cal State L.A.}}
| {{rint|losangeles|lacmta}} [[Los Angeles Metro|Metro]]: {{LACMTA icon|J|showtext=yes}}
| [[University Hills, Los Angeles|University Hills]]
|-
| {{scax|El Monte}}
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| [[El Monte, California|El Monte]]
|-
| {{scax|Baldwin Park}}
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| [[Baldwin Park, California|Baldwin Park]]
|-
| {{scax|Covina}}
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| [[Covina, California|Covina]]
|-
| {{scax|Fairplex}}<br />''(fair days)''<ref>{{cite press release|title=Metrolink to make special stop at the L.A. County Fair|url=http://www.metrolinktrains.com/news/news_item/news_id/864.html|access-date=May 1, 2015|publisher=Metrolink|date=August 26, 2013|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222163440/http://www.metrolinktrains.com/news/news_item/news_id/864.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|
| [[La Verne, California|La Verne]]
|-
| {{scax|Pomona–North}}
| {{rint|losangeles|lacmta}} [[Los Angeles Metro|Metro]]: {{LACMTA icon|A|showtext=yes}}
| [[Pomona, California|Pomona]]
|-
| {{scax|Claremont}}
|
| [[Claremont, California|Claremont]]
|-
| {{scax|Montclair}}
| 
| [[Montclair, California|Montclair]]
| rowspan="8" |[[San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino]]
|-
| {{scax|Upland}}
|
| [[Upland, California|Upland]]
|-
| {{scax|Rancho Cucamonga}}
| {{bus icon}} [[Omnitrans]]: ONT Connect to [[Ontario International Airport|ONT]] {{rint|air|link=Ontario International Airport}}
| [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]]
|-
| {{scax|Fontana}}
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|[[Fontana, California|Fontana]]
|-
| {{scax|Rialto}}
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| [[Rialto, California|Rialto]]
|-
| {{scax|San Bernardino–Depot}}
| {{rint|losangeles|metrolink}} [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]: {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Inland|inline=route}}<br />{{rint|us|amtrak}} [[Amtrak]]: ''[[Southwest Chief]]''
| rowspan=2 | [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]]
|-
| {{scax|San Bernardino–Downtown}}
| {{rint|losangeles|metrolink}} [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]: {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Arrow|inline=route}} {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Inland|inline=route}}<br />{{rint|bus|rapid|link=sbX}} [[Omnitrans]]: [[SbX]]
|-
| {{scax|Redlands–Downtown}}<br />''(limited weekday service)''
| {{rint|losangeles|metrolink}} [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]: {{rcb|Metrolink (California)|Arrow|inline=route}}
| [[Redlands, California|Redlands]]
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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== External links ==
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* [https://metrolinktrains.com/schedules/?type=line&lineName=San+Bernardino+Line San Bernardino Line schedule]
* [https://www.gosbcta.com/project/metrolink-san-bernardino-line-double-track-project-lilac-to-rancho/ San Bernardino extension page] on the San Bernardino Associated Governments website

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