New Year's Day's rain has stopped and, passing through the city of Orange (not a stop on Amtrak, but a stop on Metrolink), is Amtrak train 580, heading from Los Angeles to San Diego. CDTX (Amtrak... (more)

DEcember days are short, and as Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Weekend Service train 580 arrives at the Orange station at 3:45 pm (15:45) the sun is already very low in the sky ... but providing... (more)

A Nice Break From the Usual…
Pacific Surfliner cars and the Thanksgiving passenger crush, Amtrak sent som... (more)

An afternoon southbound Surfliner shortly after departing LA Union Station, as seen from the 1st Street Bridge.

Passing through the Metrolink station in Orange is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580. This afternoon's train is unusual for two reasons: Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509, usually used as yard power in ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580 ferries passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego, with nine stops along the way. CDTX SC-44 "Charger" 2118 is leading this train on a hot (98ºF)... (more)

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 affected most aspects of life, including on America’s railroads. Amtrak is operating shortened trains, cancelling other trains, operating reduced schedules, supply... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580, one of the six southbound trains operating on the COVID-19 reduced schedule, departs the Santa Ana (California) Regional Transportation Center (it’s much mor... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are now firmly in the charge of Siemens SC-44 "Charger" locomotives, as evidenced by CDTX 2112 on the point of train 580 at the Anaheim Regional Transp... (more)

Tickets are checked as passengers board the "Pacific Business Class Coach" on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 580. Car 6804 is named for "more)

As summer winds down, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580 skirts the Pacific Ocean at Califia State Beach in San Clemente, California, on August 25, 2018 (just a week before Labor Day weekend). O... (more)

Blue Numberboards in Orange

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #580 rushes through the Metrolink station in Orange, California, on April 2, 2017. F59PHI 452 is eighteen years and ten m... (more)

An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner makes its way along the sandy beaches of San Clemente.

A southbound Surfliner cruises along the Del Mar bluffs above the Pacific Ocean on a muggy day feeling more like the midwest than southern California.

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580 (Los Angeles to San Diego) is eleven minutes into its trip as it crosses the mighty Los Angeles River at Redondo Junction in Los Angeles, California. To avoid ... (more)