Cracker Box - A rebuilt "ex Santa Fe GP60B that was given a cab from a UP SD40-2" sits on the station siding on display for the 2014 Fullerton Railroad Days, while a northbound surfliner ap... (more)

Fullerton California - a westbound stack races through the station at Fullerton during the 2014 Railroad Days.

A week after chasing one of the largest steam locomotives as Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 was towed back to Wyoming for restoration, I had the pleasure of photographing a very small stea... (more)

Meet at Fullerton Jct - As Train 4, the Southwest Chief rounds the corner at Fullerton Junction, a Metrolink train arrives at the train station in Fullerton.

The merger of Union Pacific Railroad with Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific took effect on January 1st, 1983. In March 1983, Western Pacific GP40 3532 was painted in UP yellow and gray while r... (more)

A Los Angeles-bound Pacific Surfliner arrives in Fullerton, behind NPCU 90208 (ex-F40PH 208). Power for this train, shoving on the rear, is F59PHI 460. This is one of two train sets on th... (more)

One of Amtrak's Heritage diesels, P42DC 156, is on the point of train #4 on the last day of January 2014. The train, the Southwest Chief, makes its first station stop after departing Los A... (more)

Amtrak #562 arrives into Fullerton on a Saturday morning to kick off a day of train chasing.

SCAX 680, one of Metrolink's Hyundai Rotem cab cars, trails on the end of a deadhead consist as it rolls through Fullerton.

Over eight hours late, the Southwest Chief pulls into Fullerton behind a rare (for these parts) BNSF ES44AC (we just get the DCs and C4s - and on freight).

Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)

Cutoff - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic cutoff saw to cut a one inch gap between the ends of two 136 lb. rail sections at the Fullerton Train Station. The rai... (more)

Shearing the Excess - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic shear to remove excess iron from a molten weld produced from a Thermite reaction.

It's a passenger train! It's a freight train! It's ... a 30-car mixed train! Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, departs Fullerton, California, on July 13th, 2003 - just shy... (more)

Something you don't get to see everyday at Fullerton. A worker watches as another slices rail off Main #2 at the station. This creates a fantastic show of sparks, flying in all directions. Many p... (more)