Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, accelerates out of the Fullerton station at 4:05 PM after making a crew change with just 26 miles remaining in its journey. The scheduled time for ... (more)

Heading east on the BNSF Railway’s San Bernardino Sub’s north main is short BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACWSP3-21 (Los Angeles to Willow Springs, IL), behind five colorful BNSF e... (more)

Passing the Amtrak station in Fullerton as it heads east out of Los Angeles' Hobart Yard is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight, with SD45-2s 5646 and 5640, along with an FP45, for power... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Life Savor display train shoves back on the house track as it begins its journey to LA.

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 (Irvine to Goleta, truncated due to ground stabilization work being performed along the railroad’s right of way along the beach in San Clemente) makes its ... (more)

An ethanol train for Watson Yard in Wilmington California passes a crowd on the platforms of Fullerton Station waiting on ATSF 3751.

Out on the road again for the first time in years, ATSF class locomotive 3751 gets a little bit of sun before it begins its trip back from Fullerton to Los Angeles. Sadly a diesel had to be put in... (more)

With its bell swinging high, Santa Fe 3751 shoves its train out of the Fullerton Railroad Museum spur track where it has been on display for an Amtrak safety event. This is 3751's first outing in ... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver P42 #203 leads a special through Fullerton Jct with former Santa Fe 4-8-4 #3751, a Superliner coach, and a Pacific Surfliner cab car in tow. Though the diesel is in th... (more)

The Grand Return. Five years after it last ran on the mainline, Santa Fe 3751 returned to the rails to great fanfare for an Amtrak safety event in Fullerton, CA following its 15 year rebuil... (more)

Santa Fe F7(A) 301, built in October 1949 and still in service on Amtrak in March 1973 at Fullerton, California.

A BNSF Railway light engine movement traverses the shoofly around the construction of the Highland Avenue overpass, which will eliminate yet another grade crossing – the last one in an eight-mil... (more)

The American Bicentennial is just a year off, and Santa Fe’s fifth Bicentennial locomotive, SD45-2 5704, has still not been repainted. By this point, ATSF 5700-5703 were all painted and usually... (more)

There is not much time left for 1974 as a westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight heads west through Basta, two miles west of the train station in Fullerton. ATSF F45 5907 (the forme... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP 730 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in May 1956, with a high short-hood and an attractive black and silver “Zebra Stripe” paint scheme. It wa... (more)