As the safety-vested crew attend to her needs, 1927-built Santa Fe 3751 and her train seems a bit out out place among the modern high-rises that now dot the area around the former Santa Fe passenger station in downtown San Diego, California. When the Baldwin 4-8-4 visited regularly in San Diegan service, today's current push-pull operations (as exemplified by the control car on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #597 on the left, was unthinkable. In the morning, the special will skirt the Pacific Ocean on its way north back to Los Angeles.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
