BNSF 8070 leads an eastbound stacker past the Buena Park station on the San Bernardino Sub.

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 782 flies around the curve at Buena Park at 70mph as it heads away from the sunset towards San Diego.

Roadnumber Three of Four

Built by EMD in September 1953 as Southern Pacific 5324, this SD7 was equipped with a steam generator for dual service. By this date (February 26th, 1975), ... (more)

No graffiti here. A westbound Santa Fe manifest freight roars past clean auto racks bearing the company name. Santa Fe all the way.....

Southern California's Orange County features two narrow gauge railroads in daily service - One at Disneyland and the other at Knott's Berry Farm. The railroad at Knott's, the Ghost Town & Calico,... (more)

The Rio Grande Southern nicely recreated in Southern California thanks to Knott's Berry Farm. Here authentic RGS 2-8-0 #41 is ready to depart with another train load of equally historic wooden co... (more)

The Ghost Town & Calico Railroad's restored Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose awaits the next weekday, when lower crowds see it being substituted for the steam train. This is one of the original... (more)

Rio Grande narrow gauge Consolidation #340 awaits its next turn at running the train in the Knott's Berry Farm shops. This engine is 129 years old, looks better than most 1 year olds out there, an... (more)

Hope I look this good (and still run) when I'm 130! One of Knott's Berry Farms' immaculately maintained C-19 narrow gauge Consolidations leads the Saturday train out of the Calico Ghost Town train... (more)

The "Buena Park Local" has just completed its work shuffling cars at the La Mirada Storage Tracks and is now pulling across Artesia (at the second boxcar) and Knott (at the power) in order to acce... (more)

UP 622 with baby wings is in charge of the Buena Park Local, tied down for the weekend at Reigo St.

UP's Buena Park Local is tied down for the weekend at its normal spot along Reigo St in Buena Park with a one car train.

A GP15-1, now outfitted with remote control equipment, accelerates across Descanso Ave. This local job switches the old Southern Pacific Business Park.

early Amtrak passenger train

As Metrolink train 604 (a 4-car consist heading from Los Angeles to Oceanside) departs Buena Park behind F59PH 867, Metrolink train 609 (a 3-car train running from Oceanside to Los Angeles) arrive... (more)