Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)

Rolling off Metrolink's 5½-mile-long Olive Sub and onto Metrolink's Orange Sub is BNSF Railway train H-BARSDG, a (supposedly) High Priority freight heading from Barstow to San Diego. At this poi... (more)

BNSF Railway officer special O-LACSDG1-20A departed Commerce, near downtown Los Angeles, before sunup, and then backed onto Metrolink's Track 4 in Fullerton … possibly the first train to use tha... (more)

Orange, California, as the name implies, was a hub of activity in the citrus industry's heyday. (Ironically, the city was not named for the fruit, but rather after the city of the same name in Ne... (more)

For the second day in a row, the BNSF train from Barstow to San Diego passed through the city of Orange at about 10:30 in the morning, making for a daylight run along the beach. And also for the ... (more)

While the old Santa Fe "Surf Line", now Metrolink's Orange Sub, is closed to passenger traffic in San Clemente due to yet another landslide, freight trains are still allowed to pass by a... (more)

As a spring storm heads east, Metrolink train 684 rolls to a stop about halfway between Los Angeles and the mouthful station of Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo. (Fun fact: There is no mission in Mis... (more)

My wife used to work with someone who came from the eastern US, and after the San Gabriel Mountains would get some snow, on a clear day he would say, "It looks like we live somewhere." And as we ... (more)

Making a stop in Orange is Metrolink train 602, heading from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo. SCAX F125 907 leads this five-car train on this stormy day. (Orange, California – Febru... (more)

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local, powered by GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083, switches tank cars full of polyol at FXI, which manufactures foam mattresses. (Orange, California – February 7, 202... (more)

The conductor of Union Pacific train LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, waves to students walking to the Olive Street Elementary School as the train rolls at 5 miles-per-hour down the center of ... (more)

Bisecting Chapman University is Metrolink train 604, heading to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo from Los Angeles. (Train 604 normally goes all the way to Oceanside, but unstable ground under the main... (more)

The day started off with 2½-inches of rain, but by 16:30 (4:30 pm) the precipitation had ceased long enough ago that the sun had come out by the time Metrolink train 609 rolled past Depot Park an... (more)

Making its stop in Orange is a southbound Metrolink Orange County Line train, behind F59PH 853. (Orange, California – August 20, 2014)

Metrolink F59PH 852 leads train 859, Inland Empire-Orange County service heading from San Bernardino to Oceanside, through the crossover from northbound Track 1 to southbound Track 2 at CP Maple, ... (more)