Amtrak Engine 453 pulls into the San Clemente Pier station in San Clemente, CA. One sun bather on the beach enjoys a rather quiet day on this part of the beach.

A Railfan’s Paradise - On a gorgeous summer evening, during Golden Hour, AMTK 503 leads Pacific Surfliner A587 north along the shores of San Clemente State Beach shortly after departing San Clem... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean on its way from San Diego to Goleta (near Santa Barbara), Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner earns the name on much of this route. Train 785 has Cab/Baggage/Coach Car 69... (more)

Dashing Up the Surflline - AMTK 503, a Dash 8 typically assigned to yard duty in Los Angeles, has been deployed onto the Surfline after numerous failures with the new Siemens locomotives ca... (more)

Surflline Debut - After numerous equipment failures within the last few weeks, Amtrak has deployed an array of different equipment originally on standby from Northern California to the sout... (more)

Pacific Surfliner hugs the beach just after sunset.

Passengers in BNSF Railway Dome-Parlor-Observation 35 Canyon View are enjoying a beautiful California sunset as train O-LACSDG1-20A, comprised of nine business cars pulled by ES44C4 6571, t... (more)

BNSF Railway officer special O-SDGLAC1-20A travels along the California coast at dusk as it heads from San Diego to Fullerton, where it will unload passengers, and then moves on to Commerce, near ... (more)

An NS C6M and BNSF GEVO bring up the rear of a Barstow to San Diego manifest as they head along the Pacific Coastline in the late afternoon at San Clemente.

An extra H-BARSDG wraps around the curve west of the San Clemente Pier in the late evening.

Clear By The Pier. The sun was already below the horizon on the Pacific Ocean in San Clemente, California on April 5, 2022 when Metrolink 925 (F125, EMD, 2015-2021) led a train south along ... (more)

A northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner led by Siemens SC-44 Charger #2112 blows through San Clemente Station with San Clemente Pier visible on the horizon behind it

An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner heads north along the coast after passing through the San Clemente Pier station (off camera to the right).

On The Surfline. On August 20, 2017, Amtrak/Amtrak California Train 768 carried the former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman obs/diner "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007) on... (more)

Rocky Route. On September 18, 2021,  BNSF 6851 (ES44C4) led a rock train W-SBDSBD down the shores of the Pacific Ocean at Calafia Beach in San Clemente, California. Due to erosion that had... (more)