The passenger first locomotive in Southern California Regional Rail Authority's (better known as Metrolink) roster was SCAX F59PH 851, built by EMD in May 1992.

Out of service for a few... (more)

LAST RUN

The passenger first locomotive in Southern California Regional Rail Authority's (better known as Metrolink) roster was SCAX F59PH 851, built by EMD in May 1992.
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The Next Chapter. After multiple years of planning and waiting, Metrolink's first rostered locomotive, EMD F59PHR 851, has finally arrived its "retirement" home at the Fullerton ... (more)

No Looking Back. Metrolink F59PHR 851, built in May 1992 as the first locomotive for the railroad, shoves out of the place it has called home for 34 years - the Metrolink Central Maintenan... (more)

Just a Few More Carlengths to Its New Home!

The passenger first locomotive in Southern California Regional Rail Authority's (better known as Metrolink) roster was SCAX F59... (more)

The F125 Test Train shoves out of the Pasadena Sub and approaches CP-Claremont. They'll soon head west to Taylor via the foreground San Gabriel Sub.

Orange Crush

Metrolink train 682, passing through CP Maple in Orange, California, is running 20 minutes behind schedule as it heads from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, o... (more)

A Southbound Metrolink train #662 at San Clemente Beach on 1/31/15.

Metrolink train 707 shoves away from Fullerton into the afterglow of a spectacular sunset.

The engineer of Metrolink train #707 (Riverside to Los Angeles) has a front row seat for a spectacular sunset as the train makes its stop in Fullerton, California, on September 30, 2011. Metrolink... (more)

Metrolink train #707 (Riverside to Los Angeles) heads into the sunset after making a station stop in Fullerton, California, on September 23, 2011. Due out of Fullerton at 6:41, the train was runn... (more)

The local railfan community turned out on June 14, 1992, to see Metrolink F59PH 851 lead a test train through Fullerton, California, on its way to Oceanside. Regular service would begin later tha... (more)

Jacki Bacharach, of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (a predecessor agency to the LACMTA), breaks the ceremonial bottle of champagne on the anticlimber of Metrolnk F59PH 851 at the... (more)

An Orange Country weekend train pushes over the Redondo Junction Flyover, passing over the brown water of the Los Angeles River on its way into Union Station. The train is made up of Bombardier bi... (more)

Metrolink F59PH 851 and its train arrives for the formal dedication ceremony at Los Angeles Union Station. After years of planning, commuter trains would be operating in southern California withi... (more)