With all passengers loaded on board, the conductor checks his clock as he gets ready to say highball.

Amtrak's Amfleet train leaving Fullerton Station.

Caught in the Moment - The Conductor on Amtrak Train #565 converses with a passerby on the platform at Fullerton, while the train waits to leave at the scheduled time on a Winter morning in Januar... (more)

Amtrak 774 flies through Carlsbad, CA on a Sunday afternoon. Behind them are the remnants of a dust cloud they kicked up while going through a patch of fresh ballast. The train would later be ca... (more)

AMTK 454 leads a Pacific Surfliner train with a low level set of car northbound as the train crosses the trestles at Trestles Beach.

The Engineer of Amtrak Train #513 slowed the train to a stop at Edmonds, WA about 5 minutes late. These days, I've seen more passengers at the Edmonds Station taking Amtrak when compared to last y... (more)

On a winter morning with temps hovering right at the freezing mark and fog spread across the entire Puget Sound region, I decided to try my luck at driving an hour and a half from home to the shor... (more)

With the Coastliine shut down for the weekend Amtrak has tracks 2 and 3 fully occupied with 2 surfline sets on track 3.

Nightly Amtrak stopping at Old Town.

The 454 puts out a little more smoke than usual and the engine screams in protest at the engineer's request that it shove 10 California cars and a sister Surfliner F59 up the grade out of Solana B... (more)

Locomotive 454 is pointed the wrong way when compared to train 590's consist next to it... Looking carefully (or clicking here) you... (more)

Detail of AMTK 454's windshield. Pacific Surfliner 784 was hit by a brick somewhere between Anaheim and Santa Ana while on its way to San Diego. The train made a rare move up the Olive Sub to wy... (more)

AMTK 454 makes a regular stop at the Fullerton Amtrak Station as BNSF 4969 passes by on track 2.

Mechanics finish hooking up the brake lines between the 454 and the Cyrus K Holliday. In just a moment the 454 will shove the PV through the Washington street wye, then put it into a storage sidi... (more)