Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner #784 is a southbound train, so it's rather unusual to see it running at speed northbound, as it is here at Oxnard Pallet. The reason for this "reverse move" with engine ... (more)
Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #573 arrives in Santa Ana, California, ninety-two miles north of the train's origination point of San Diego (and just thirty-six miles from the end point of Los Ang... (more)
The only Phase IV Dash 8 presently assigned to the West Coast pool, #509, pitches in on Surfliner duty this day, subbing for a crippled F59PHI with the evening's train to San Luis Obispo, seen her... (more)
Amtrak 774 passes by under a brilliant, clear southern California Fall sky. On the point she's wearing an oddity for this route, a P32-8BWH. Generally they're reserved for long distance trains a... (more)