One block away from Pacific Ocean

Los Angeles Metro light rail consist arrives at the Colorado/Fourth Street terminus only one block away from the Pacific ocean and the Santa ... (more)

Expo Line train heads east under a tangled web of catenary and cat-support wiring on its way from Santa Monica to Los Angeles.

A westbound Expo Line train curves from the original Pacific Electric right of way to the re-alignment required when the line was reactivated after buildings had been built on the most western end... (more)

An eastbound Expo Line train climbs up the grade separation at 20th Street in Santa Monica. This line is full of grade separations where the trains are the ones forced to climb and drop while the ... (more)

A set of new Kinkis pulls to make a station stop at Santa Monica College, while another set of the same cars stops on the opposite side of the platform.

A venerable (and soon to be retired) set of P865 cars run east towards Los Angeles passing the Associated Ready Mix cement plant, one of the very last vestiges of when Santa Monica had an industri... (more)

An outbound train to Santa Monica nears its final destination as it passes the one-time location of locally famous Santa Monica Seafood.

A set of Metro's oldest cars leads the 906AM train to Los Angeles past the bust Associated Ready Mix plant on a gorgeous Southern California summer morning.

An outbound Expo train passes the busy Associated Ready Mix plant along what was once an industrial part of the city of Santa Monica. There were two concrete plants like this still along the line ... (more)

This photo is mid-afternoon on a day without a cloud in the sky. What you are seeing is smoke from the Sand Fire, 40 miles away. Sand Fire smoke covered Santa Monica for most of the day leaving it... (more)

On the very first day of revenue trains (well, they were free that day, but they were scheduled and passenger carrying), I set of Siemens cars slows on its final approach to the Downtown Santa Mon... (more)

On the first day of revenue passenger trains in 63 years, a set of elderly Nippon cars heads west into Santa Monica. While most of this route is built on the old Los Angeles & Independence (Santa ... (more)

A Del Amo Bound Metro Blue Line train in Los Angeles, CA.

Los Angeles Metro Rail 25th Anniversary special wraps on Metro Green Line train at Harbor Freeway Station.

A test train heads off the original Southern Pacific Santa Monica Branch ROW and onto brand new ROW on a Saturday morning. The concrete plant in the back is a small homage to this area's former in... (more)