A U2 trolley sits at American Plaza Station in downtown. San Diego was where the light rail revolution started the first system in modern America built from scratch. The U2 cars were the first to ... (more)

A soon to be retired U2 leads a blue line service outbound through downtowntown San Diego. When the low floor project is completed these cars the first to roll on the system will be retired.

Northbound manifest train departing downtown San Diego for Barstow. The train was pulling about twenty-seven cars this evening. I am standing on California Street, between Hawthorn and Grape stree... (more)

A six-car BNSF Railway business train skirts Interstate 5 as it approaches downtown San Diego, California, on May 15th, 2012. Brand new ES44C4 6967 brought this train to Los Angeles the previous ... (more)

San Diego Northern "Coaster" commuter train #653 crosses the lagoons in the Sorrento Valley in northern San Diego, California, as it heads from downtown San Diego to Oceanside on January 27th, 201... (more)

The trolley bar and adjoining yard use to be the main shops of the San Diego & Arizona (Eastern was added after a takeover by SP). The railroad was constructed in the early 1910s to create a secon... (more)

The Surf Line is, for obvious reasons, a popular spot in the private car circles. I would estimate that from mid-Spring right to the end of Summer maybe one in ten Surfliners have at least one pri... (more)

LORAX! Taken well before Lorax-branded everything was cool, MTS vehicle #2019 sports a Lorax-themed ad-wrap promoting green travel via Trolley. Check out a close-up on the impressive more)

In the prewar years, one could easily confuse this area along Miramar Hill for Cajon Pass. For the most part it was nothing but wilderness and actually had as many as five locomotives stationed at... (more)

This is about as railroad as San Diego gets. Just south of downtown and the Padres' Petco Park, the San Diego trolley, local shortline San Diego & Imperial Valley and BNSF each have small yards ne... (more)

What to think? The first of many beautifully restored PCC cars makes an odd appearance during a big downtown LRT closure. But a massive MTS pantograph stretched high for the tall OCS, LED s... (more)

Humming along Commercial Street, a duo of SD100's haul a trainload of passengers into the San Diego city core. New development in the background give us a glimpse of a new dense, Southern Californ... (more)

An Amtrak Cascades NPCU takes a vacation on the Pacific Surfliner, with 90230 on the point of 583 en route to Los Angeles. P42 81 is providing the power, and private car "Montana" (MILW) is bringi... (more)