As Metrolink train 857 made its way south on the carrier’s Olive Sub, offering weekend service between inland San Bernardino and the aptly-named Oceanside, stuck a trespasser in a "non-pedestrian ... (more)

The San Gabriel Mountains have finally gotten their first coating of snow for the season, and the following day Metrolink Orange County Line train 684 passes through Control Point (CP) Maple, and ... (more)

Heading south on Metrolink’s Orange Sub, Union Pacific GP60 1162 (ex-UP 1991, née-Cotton Belt 9689) takes eight cars to Santa Ana. When Interstate 5 was widened in the late 1990s necessitating th... (more)

A Pleasant Surprise!

After running an errand at the large chain hardware store alongside Metrolink’s Olive Sub, on the way home I made a quick stop at the Metrolink station in down... (more)

Metrolink train 605 departed Oceanside at 5:42 am, the third Los Angeles-bound departure of the day. At 6:49 the train is arriving at the station in Orange. With COVID-19 pandemic restrictions s... (more)

Metrolink F125 937 is slowing train 600 from its 79 Miles Per Hour speed limit as it rounds the last curve, at CP College, approaching the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC)... (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)

Metrolink train 604, making its way from Los Angeles to Oceanside, makes its stop in Orange. SCAX F125 918 is the power for this train. (Orange, California – September 25, 2020)

On the last full day of summer 2020, Metrolink train 689 passes through CP Maple as it heads to Los Angeles with F125 919 shoving on the rear. SCAX 919 was built by EMD in February 2017, but did ... (more)

The "Ranch 2" fire was burning in the Angeles National Forest above Azusa, with the fire destroying 2,500 acres with just 3% containment as of Saturday morning. By afternoon, the fire had created... (more)

Heading through CP Maple is Union Pacific train LOA32, which originated in Anaheim and is now heading to Santa Ana to deliver two tank cars to Behr Paint. UP GP60 1064 (ex-UP 1909, originally Sou... (more)

North(bound) meets South(bound) at Irvine as Metrolink train 811 (Riverside to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, with F125 922 shoving) departs the station while a one-hour late Amtrak Pacific Surfl... (more)

It doesn't seem like it, but the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center is 35-year-old. Since tile roofs typically last anywhere from 50- to 100-years, the fact that the station is getting a ne... (more)

Making a stop in Orange is Metrolink train 633, heading from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to Los Angeles. (Fun fact: There is no mission in Mission Viejo.) Train 633 is one of the few operating ... (more)

On Memorial Day 2020, the holiday lull in rail traffic was taken advantage of when a special high/wide load was hauled from San Onofre, in northern San Diego County to Apex, Nevada. Morning passe... (more)