eastbound SP Costa Mesa Local using Santa Fe trackage rights to access Costa Mesa Branch passing Anaheim Stadium Station

A "Pepsi Can" pushes a southbound Amtraker to San Diego in this scene now quite a few years ago. Today, this stop sees Metrolink service as well as expanded Amtrak Pacific Surfliner service (six e... (more)

I photographed it, but sometimes I wonder why ... The railroads spend a lot of money applying paint to their equipment, only to have some twit with some spray cans ruin it. Union Pacific GP38-2 1... (more)

Amtrak train #36, the eastbound Desert Wind (Los Angeles CA to Salt Lake City UT) passes through Lambert, a "station" in eastern Anaheim, California, on January 27th, 1993. Amtrak's colorf... (more)

A set of "Anaheim Hauler" power lays over in Anaheim, California, on Sunday, January 6th, 2013. A pair of SD60s (2159, ex-6004, and 2225, ex-6070) bracket SD59M-2 9909 (ex-SD60M 2508, nee-6354). ... (more)

During the late eighties, I always tried to get up to West Anahiem Yard to shoot any of the old Cadillac SD9s or SD7s still toiling around the branch. I got very lucky one day and got the Costa M... (more)

Southern Pacific SD45T-2 6809, seen here in the company of SD9s and GP9s in Anaheim, California, on January 30th, 1989, rolled out of EMD's factory in Illinois in February 1972 as SP 9167. It was... (more)

Members of the American Freedom Train's crew pose next to engine 4449's tender while the train is on display in Anaheim, California, on January 13, 1976. From left to right are: Left to right: R... (more)

A typically eclectic set of Southern Pacific power lays over at the road's West Anaheim Yard in Anaheim, California, on April 18, 1992: Two GP35s, an SW1500 and a pair of GP9s. GP35 6351 is the ... (more)

What a shock! A unit assigned to Anaheim without graffiti on it.

Don't let that clean nose fool you - Union Pacific 8310 is seven years old and kind of grubby, but the nose was recently repainted as part of an upgrade (which also included new grilles on the lef... (more)

A Santa Fe & Disneyland passenger train makes a stop at the Main Street station. SF&D 2-4-4T Forney #3 was built by Baldwin in April 1895. The 36"-gauge engine was rebuilt from Godchaux Sugar Co... (more)