This is the life.....train spotting on the beach. Would love to live here and do this everyday.

RBBX Circus Train led by BNSF 7214 makes it's way north through San Clemente in 2011.

Cascades NPCU leads Surfliner Train #583 past a surfing class and a crowded busy beach in San Clemente.

Pacific Surfliner #580 scoots past swimmers, walkers, joggers, & sunning bikini clad beauties all enjoying the California lifestyle.

Scattered beach goers sun, swim and surf as Amtrak 580 heads southward along the Pacific Ocean.

Coaster in San Clemente? Yes I was surprised too, apparently "borrowed" SDNX 2103 helps shove Metrolink train #604 towards Oceanside.

A Surfliner slides through San Clemente on a summer day in southern California. Got real lucky on this day, most mornings face the gloomy marine layer in the summer, but today was sunny.

A dual headed Metrolink train passes by joggers and beach goers in sunny San Clemente. This is the only F40 that Metrolink has and it is very rare for it to be out on regular service.

Double rarity on the surfline is a GE P42 and single level passenger cars, lead by NCPU Casscades unit out of sight. During the summer months sometimes extra stock comes in to help meet demand.

Metrolink 896 sits at the San Clemente Pier station enroute from Oceanside to LA with a late morning commuter train.

Yet another Amtrak P42DC pulling a Pacific Surfliner train. Special thanks go out to the San Clemente Lifeguards for allowing me to stand on a tower platform to take the shot!

Amtrak's San Diegan makes a station stop at San Clemente.

Amtrak 462 flies down the Pacific Coast; delivering to it's passengers the spectacular views the line is known for, and the miles of beach line that give it the name "Surfliner."

AMTK 114 pulling an impressive eight-car Pacific Surfliner consist through San Clemente. This is one of three P42DC locomotives in Pacific Surfliner service.

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner with the San Clemente Pier behind it.