A Pepsi Can pushing a San Diegan

Amtrak 785 boards in San Diego on a beautiful Summer afternoon. The Dash-8 was equipped with ATS and assigned to the Surfliners due to a high F59 shop count, which is a common occurance during th... (more)

Amtrak 589 hosts an unusual guest. After a couple of F59s marked off sick the 503 was recalled from switching duties to stretch its legs on the Surfline. As far as I know this was the first time... (more)

A switch crew brings the Amtrak 503 and a cut of three cars into track 2 to be staged for an evening departure on train 595. The cars are for extra capacity to haul the copious amounts of people ... (more)

A northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner to Goleta passes the East Beach flood control channel of Laguna Creek. This cobble-lined stream channel was built by the Works Progress Adminstristration (WPA... (more)

A GE Dash 8 acting as a yard goat pauses while switching around some Superliner cars at Amtrak's maintenance yard along the Los Angeles River.

With it's normal P42 (#112) suffering a traction motor failure and locked axle (and stranding its cars and Cabbage Car up north), the Central Coast Surfliner heads to San Luis Obispo with substitu... (more)

The Snow train departs on the old street level main line.

The mid week Reno Snow Train Westbound crossing the Truckee River at Verdi, NV

Amtrak #773, a San Diegan heading to Los Angeles from San Diego, accelerates from a station stop in Fullerton, California, in April 1975.

Amtrak SDP40F 503 crosses Lemon Street as it departs Fullerton, California with a southbound "San Diegan," heading on to San Diego, on October 29, 1974.

Reno Snow Train at Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevadas

Crossing the north end of Elkhorn Slough

The Coast Starlight