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Leading Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 (San Diego to Goleta) is a visitor from northern California: California Dep... (more)

Making its way from San Diego to the Santa Barbara suburb of Goleta is Amtrak train 765. This six-car train has a pair of California Department of Transportation (CDTX) Siemens "Chargers&quo... (more)

On a hot afternoon (92º F / 33.333ºC, with 58% humidity) storm clouds have built up over the San Gabriel Mountains. The problem, of course, is lightning, which could possibly start new fires in... (more)

North Meets South … Train 800 Meets Train 600 … 907 Meets 935 … (OK, that last one is more than a bit lame … Sorry about that …)

Meeting at the Metrolink station... (more)

Held up a bit by a pair of late passenger trains (Amtrak 769 running 10 minutes late, and Metrolink 859 running 8 minutes behind because it had to wait for AMTK 769), BNSF High Priority Freight H-... (more)

Decked out if Metrolink's least attractive paint scheme, 32-year-old F59PH 868, one of only two F59PHs still operating on the system, pushes Orange County Line train 609 (Oceanside to Los Angeles)... (more)

Departing the station in Orange, and about to diverge from Metrolink's Orange Sub to their Olive Sub (and then onto BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub) is train 802. This train, consisting of F125 931 a... (more)

Four-month-old Metrolink MP36PH-3C 894 leads Orange County Line train 689, which originated in Irvine and is heading to Los Angeles. At this point, SCAX 894 still has the roadnumbers with which i... (more)

A somewhat rare daylight move of a San Diego-bound freight, BNSF H-BARSDG1-25A, occurred when the train transitioned off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and onto Metrolink’s Orange Sub at 11:00 am, as A... (more)

As the set sets, Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange Line train 860 departs the station in Orange as it heads from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to downtown San Bernardino. (The train usually originates... (more)

Another atmospheric river hits California, but this one isn’t as bad as the one earlier in the month. Metrolink train 802, behind F125 903, rolls to a stop at the station (a former Santa Fe dep... (more)

Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)

Rolling off Metrolink's 5½-mile-long Olive Sub and onto Metrolink's Orange Sub is BNSF Railway train H-BARSDG, a (supposedly) High Priority freight heading from Barstow to San Diego. At this poi... (more)

BNSF Railway officer special O-LACSDG1-20A departed Commerce, near downtown Los Angeles, before sunup, and then backed onto Metrolink's Track 4 in Fullerton … possibly the first train to use tha... (more)

Orange, California, as the name implies, was a hub of activity in the citrus industry's heyday. (Ironically, the city was not named for the fruit, but rather after the city of the same name in Ne... (more)