Amtraks "Southwest Limited" makes it's last station stop before arriving Los Angeles Union Passenger Station at Pasadena

Amtrak 503 passes Oxnard yard, in the siding to meet Metrolink.

Amtrak's 'Desert Wind' awaits a late evening departure from Salt Lake City for Los Angeles. Amtrak purchased 20 B32-8PW units from General Electric in 1991. Today they serve primarily as yard swit... (more)

Pushing a consist of three coaches and APCU 90230 in Cascade scheme, Amtrak 503 doing 60 mph when he pass Eucalyptus Lane downtown Montecito, Ca on a warm and sunny afternoon.

Due to another F59PHI breakdown, the Coach Yard Switcher, AMTK 503, has been pressed into Capitol Corridor service and is seen leading #535 through San Lorenzo at a very high rate of speed.

Amtrak's Coast Starlight lead by two Dash-8s sandwiching a P42 make their way north out of Bradley on the Union Pacific Coast Line. An extra empty baggage car tags along on the rear on its trip ... (more)

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.