Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line train 703, with F125 925 shoving on the rear, departs at 6:50 under a spectacular sky as the sun rises in the east. This is why I get up early … to enjoy both su... (more)

Metrolink train 604, an Orange County Line train heading from Los Angeles to Oceanside, unloads (and loads) passengers at the Fullerton station at 17:25 (5:25 pm), with F59PHI 876 leading. By the... (more)

Holding on Track 2 for the afternoon passenger rush is a BNSF Railway double stack train. In another hour or so, after the requisite number of Amtrak Pacific Surfliners and Metrolink commu... (more)

What appears to be an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train is actually a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train, as the BNSF was but five months old at this time, and many of the locomotiv... (more)

… and That's a Wrap on 2025!

On a rainy New Year's Eve afternoon, my wife and I hit the train station for a few minutes on the way home from visiting with one of our gra... (more)

It is 16:30 (4:30 pm) and the sun is about to drop "into" the Pacific Ocean as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 581 makes its last stop on its way from San Diego to Los Angeles. In the f... (more)

Due to the long Thanksgiving weekend, and its higher than usual passenger counts, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are running with extra cars. Many of Amtrak's Surfliners during this ti... (more)

Due to the long Thanksgiving weekend, and its higher than usual passenger counts, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are running with extra cars. Many of Amtrak's Surfliners during this ti... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway SD75I 8291, Montana Rail Link SD45 375 (ex-CNW 6556, ex-CR 6233, ex-PC 6233, née-PRR 6233) and BNSF GP50 3178 (ex-ATSF 3825) are approaching the Fullerton Tra... (more)

At 12:37 am BNSF Railway Container Intermodal train S-CHILBE1-23L, heading to Long Beach from Chicago, passes through Fullerton Junction. Norfolk Southern Railway's Conrail Heritage unit, ES44AC ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 784 (Goleta to San Diego) diverges from BNSF's San Bernardino Sub to Southern California Regional Rail Authority's (more commonly known as Metrolink) Orange Sub upo... (more)

Shortly after Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 785 moved from Track 2 to Track 1 to make its stop in Fullerton, the signal on Track 2 cleared and eastbound BNSF High-Priority Freight H-WATBAR1-10A, with ... (more)

It is 6:30 in the afternoon (18:30) and Amtrak San Diegan 775 is making its next-to-last stop as it heads from San Diego to Los Angeles. A pair of SDP40F, built earlier this year, lead thi... (more)

Rounding the western end of the S-curve at Fullerton Junction, where BNSF Railway's San Bernardino Sub expands to three mainlines when the Southern California Regional Rail Authority's Orange Sub ... (more)

Southern California Regional Rail Authority (aka Metrolink) Orange County Line commuter train 606 splits the signals as it departs the Fullerton Transportation Center. Having originated in downto... (more)