Metrolink train 689 (Irvine to Los Angeles) makes its stop in Fullerton just after sunset on a cool winter day. SCAX 855, the F59PH shoving this train, will serve Metrolink for just another seven months and twenty-two days. It would gain infamy when it is destroyed in a massive and deadly head-on collision with a Union Pacific freight in Chatsworth on September 12, 2008, killing 25 and injuring over 100 others. This horrific wreck prompted the government and the railroad industry to finally get Positive Train Control installed and operating on much of this nation’s railroads – a massive, but critically necessary, endeavor. (Fullerton, California – January 21, 2008)
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!)
