The beach has started to clear out as dinner time nears, but the life guards are still around to barely notice yet another train pass by.

Metrolink 404 begins its trip to Riverside by running along the east bank of the LA River and by the tagged up power at UP's 4th Street Yard.

A Lancaster, California bound Metrolink commuter train makes its way through the Sand Canyon Fire near Tunnel #19. The 22,000+ acre wild fire has forced Antelope Valley Line trains to operate at r... (more)

A BNSF AC4400CW leads a deadhead double set into Los Angeles Union Station. This train will take a platform and then be cut into two trains for their revenue outbound runs.

Because what you really need for commuter trains is the ability to pull huge amounts of tonnage at very low speeds without burning out the traction motors, a pair of BNSF AC4400CWs await their tru... (more)

Metrolink 642 arrives at Santa Ana station at dusk under dramatic skies. The smoke is from a massive wildfire 60 miles away in Santa Clarita.

An F59, F40 and 4-8-4 walk into a bar... Metrollink lined up the "old equipment" to display with their brand new F125. Wonder if the F59 and/or F40 will live on like the Northern.

As the sun sets on the Pacific Ocean Metrolink train 606 rides the coastline as surfers wait to ride the next wave.

The new leader of the pack. One of Metrolink's new F125 "Spirit" Tier 4 locomotives, the third built, though the first to be delivered, sits on display at Los Angeles Union Statio... (more)

Metrolink's first Tier IV diesel, F125 #905 is the lead unit on a display train being set up for an event the following day at Los Angeles Union Station.

The New Face of Metrolink

If you cross your eyes and let them go out of focus, it kind of, sort of, looks like an F-unit. Maybe. OK, not really. But, still, it is an F-unit. T... (more)

Ready to Meet the Public

Metrolink's first (and, so far, only) F125 will be on display at Los Angeles Union Station on Monday, July 18, 2016. The engine arrived a day early to get s... (more)

With freshly touched up 'heritage paint' F59PH 859 on the point Metrolink train 207 accelerates away from the station at Via Princessa and towards the siding at Honby. Train 207 terminates in Via ... (more)

Metrolink's newest locomotive, SCAX 905 has arrived at Keller Yard in Los Angeles, CA by BNSF Railway.

A New Model from EMD

An interesting little train passes through Fullerton, California, as the sun was rising on June 16th, 2016. This train originated at EMD's plant in Muncie, IN, ... (more)