Metrolink 's Antelope Valley Line originally terminated in Santa Clarita , and was named the Santa Clarita line . Its plans to extend the line were expedited by almost 10 years following the 1994 Northridge earthquake , which collapsed sections of the SR 14 and I-5 freeways . The Navy Seabee construction battalion and crews from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works built an emergency Lancaster station in three days , and Metrolink service began one week after the earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Lancaster station (California)