http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=2921&mode=sequential&flags=0
Pretty sure this is one of the trestles damaged. I heard one was bad...but that last article said several.
Oops.
There is an empty oilcan train south of there waiting to go to Wunpost ( http://rlehmer.50megs.com/photos/SP/postmerger/sp203_santamargarita-1.html ) This train moves 1,000,000 gallons of oil every three days between San Ardo and the LA Refineries....you miss a couple of those shipments and there may indeed be a spike in gas prices!
I messed up...the train has 72 cars with 20,000 gallons each, so, 1.4 million gallons per trip....or a lot of oil changes!
I didn't know San Ardo produced that much crud or that what it produced was carried by train to Southern California.
Never really thought about it...
I'd say it passes by my home about 1/2 mile away from the tracks.
"The oil refinery at the Mariposa Reina exit was threatened, and all railroad activity between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara was stopped until further notice, Johnson said."
There is apparently also an oil refinery in danger.