About to roll through the final curve before arriving at the Fullerton Transportation Center is Metrolink train 753. This 91/Perris Valley Line train is heading from Perris (South) to Los Angeles... (more)

Amtrak’s Phase I Heritage engine, P42DC 156, was painted to celebrate the carrier’s 40th Anniversary in 2011. After departing Los Angeles, AMTK 156, leading train 4, the now tri-weekly Sou... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-LACNYC9-17 winds through the S-curve at Fullerton Jucntion, where Metrolink’s Orange Sub (formerly the Santa Fe’s Fourth District) diverges from the BNSF’s San Bernardin... (more)

Metrolink train 751 is a 91/Perris Valley Line train, making its way from Perris (South) station to Los Angeles Union Station. SCAX cab car 689 is leading this westbound, with SCAX F125 926 power... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-WSPLAC7-11 heads into the setting sun behind a quintet of GE diesels (ES44DC 7329, ET44C4 3879, ES44C4 7116, ET44C4 3798 and ES44C4 7094). This is a Priority UPS-LTL Intermod... (more)

A trainload of shipping containers, most with either no or very small logos, bound for New York NY heads east in BNSF train Z-LACNYC9-07. As usual in the Twenty-First Century, the train is powere... (more)

The Last Daily Chief

October 11, 2020, was the final day for daily service for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, such as train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, as it ma... (more)

A Guaranteed Service Intermodal train, BNSF train Q-LACATG6-07, is just twenty miles into its trip from Hobart Yard (in the city of Vernon, but known as "Los Angeles" by the BNSF) to Atl... (more)

Just after sunset on another smoky day in the Western US, BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-12 (High Priority Merchandise, Barstow to Watson) is about to get overtaken by a higher priority westbound (t... (more)

It is sunset, both literally and figuratively, for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, as on October 12, 2020, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, San Francisco Zephyr, Empire Builder an... (more)

BNSF Railway train R-CAL0081-30I, the "2nd La Mirada" local, is a local with a pair of former Santa Fe GP60Ms for power: BNSF 127 and 141. This train is heading back to the yard in La ... (more)

Twenty minutes after the westbound H-BARWAT passed through Fullerton, its eastbound counterpart, H-WATBAR9-30A, approaches the passenger station as it leaves the setting sun behind. Even on a hot... (more)

Each day, the near constant parade of intermodal trains on BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub through Fullerton is broken up by a few locals, as well as a pair of "loose car" freight trains: T... (more)

Metrolink train 606 (Los Angeles to Oceanside) rolls into the Fullerton Transportation Center under a gloaming sky on the last day of September. Metrolink F125 932 is one of forty on Metrolink’... (more)

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, has operated as a daily train for nearly 50 years (although not always with that name, as it was originally the Southwest Limited). That ends in a couple... (more)