Approaching Control Point Maple, where Metrolink's Orange Sub meets their Olive Sub (the two tracks in the foreground), is Union Pacific Railroad local LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, heading from the West Anaheim Yard to Santa Ana. (This train used to go to Costa Mesa to deliver carloads of paper to the Los Angeles Times printing plant there, but that plant closed years ago, and the track to Costa Mesa is no longer in service, or even connected to the rest of the UP's Santa Ana Industrial Lead.) UP "GP40-2" 1529 (ex-SP MK-rebuild GP40R 7294, ex-CSXT GP40 6811, ex-SBD GP40 6811, née-L&N GP40 3015) and GP40-2 1400 (ex-SSW 7645) have 9 cars in tow (2 empty centerbeams, 5 box cars and 2 tank cars). This train has already operated on the UP Santa Ana Industrial Lead for three miles, including down the center to two streets in Anaheim, then hopped onto Metrolink's Orange Sub near the Anaheim Amtrak/Metrolink train station, and will then, 5 miles later, diverge back onto the UP Santa Ana Industrial Lead again for another 7 miles. After switching those industries at the end of the SA Industrial Lead, this train will return to Anaheim with UP 1400 leading. As with so many UP locomotives assigned to urban areas, both Geeps wear unique and colorful paint jobs, courtesy of those with unlimited amounts of spray paint, often "acquired" from Home Depot stores, which cannot be bothered locking their spray paint up. (Orange, California – June 2, 2025)
