The freight to San Diego normally operates at night, after the busy line heading south along the Pacific quiets down. But at times they operated in the daytime, often because of maintenance being... (more)

Dumb Luck and a Long Lens...

As Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange County Line train 1858 departs the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center heading from Oceanside to downtown San ... (more)

It is a bit after 1:00 am, and the latest Light Rail Vehicle to be delivered to the OC Streetcar is being towed by a Herzog HiRail pickup truck into the shops. This is the sixth of eight cars for... (more)

It is just after 1:00 am, and the latest Light Rail Vehicle to be delivered to the OC Streetcar is almost all on the rails, with only the rear truck still on the trailer. This is the sixth of eig... (more)

The truck that delivered OCTA S700 104 to Santa Ana has dropped part of the trailer and pulled forward with the tractor and the wheeled-portion of the trailer, leaving the section that carries the... (more)

Just moment earlier, another of OC Streetcar's new LRVs, OCTA 104, has just been rolled off the trailer that brought it here from Sacramento and onto the carrier's rails on Santa Ana Boulevard at ... (more)

Crossing Santiago Creek just seconds away from crossing into the city of Orange from Santa Ana (I'm in Orange and the train is not ... yet), Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 777 is heading north (r... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 572 departs the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center after meeting northbound Surfliner 573 there. Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509 (one of the 20 diesels deliv... (more)

As BNSF train U-KCKSDG1-27M, a military unit train heading to San Diego CA from Kansas City KS, was crossing Cajon Pass on October 31, Union Pacific ES44AC 7455 was leading BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5262. ... (more)

Rounding the curve heading into the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (serving Amtrak and Metrolink, along with both local transit and long-distance buses and, soon, light rail!) is BNSF tr... (more)

THIS is a Pacific Surfliner"?!?

Bringing up the rear of Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 790 (Goleta to San Diego), departing the Santa Ana Regional Tran... (more)

Heading to San Diego from Goleta, Amtrak San Diegan 774 makes its stop in Santa Ana. Five-month-old Dash 8-40BP 810 leads this train this day, pulling six Amfleet cars, a baggage car and F... (more)

Rolling into the Santa Ana Transportation Center is Metrolink train 686, with F125 932 on the head-end. This Orange County Line train originated in Los Angeles and will terminate in Irvine … an... (more)

Amtrak train 582, a Pacific Surfliner, has just crossed into Santa Ana as it heads from Los Angeles to San Diego. AMTK F59PHI 454, built in June 1998, is pulling this six-car train as it e... (more)

Union Pacific GP40P-2 has been assigned to the local that originates in Anaheim for several months now, and it is hard to not go out to photograph it as it is one of only three GP40P-2s bui... (more)