When Metrolink service first began in 1992, trains terminated at the Santa Clarita station, but with plans to extend the line northeast to the Antelope Valley.

[5] Those plans were expedited by almost 10 years when the 1994 Northridge earthquake caused the collapse of the freeway connector of State Route 14 onto Interstate 5 at the Newhall Pass interchange.

Emergency stations in Lancaster and Palmdale were built in just three days, and Metrolink started operating trains one week after the earthquake struck.

Via Princessa station is served by 30 Metrolink Antelope Valley Line trains (15 in each direction) each weekday.

For passengers using bicycles, there is an entrance to the Santa Clara River Trail on Whites Canyon Road, an approximately 0.7-mile (1.1 km) ride north of the station.