IEOC Lien train 860 passes the Automatic Train Stop shoes at Orange as they approach the station.

The Veterans cabbage leads 583 around the bend at Maple and a train of Horizon coaches.

858 enters the Olive Sub at CP-Maple as they head out of Orange.

Metrolink 858 rounds the curve as they exit Santa Ana and enter Orange on a San Bernardino-bound IEOC Line train.

The morning’s rain has let up just in time for BNSF Railway train U-SBDSDG1-14M (a 50-car unit military train heading from San Bernardino to San Diego) to pass through town without having to act... (more)

Ex-SP Engines on Ex-ATSF Trackage

What a difference a day makes: Yesterday, it was 79ºF and today it is just 68ºF at this time. Union Pacific local LOA32, and 11 car train be... (more)

This is January? It is hard to tell which season it is when the temperature is 79º F (26º C) at 11:00 am in January! At least the San Gabriel Mountains still have some s... (more)

Having spent the holidays in New York with the grandkids, we missed all the precipitation that occurred in southern California (darn it … us natives love when it rains here!). But on our first ... (more)

With the morning's fog burned off, Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way from Anaheim’s West Anaheim Yard to Santa Ana with UP GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083 pulling sixteen cars. As it does so, ... (more)

The first big storm of the season hit southern California the day before, but it wasn’t quite cold enough to drop much snow on the San Gabriel Mountains – but a little is better than none. BN... (more)

It was a busy afternoon at Metrolink’s station in Orange due to a fatal trespasser strike in Santa Ana, which closed the line for over three hours. At 3:39 pm (15:39), Metrolink train 663 (Ocea... (more)

As a late autumn storm moves out, Metrolink train 806 rolls in. Metrolink F125 930 leads this Inland Empire-Orange County Line train, which originated in Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and is headed... (more)

Heading from Anaheim to Santa Ana is Union Pacific local LOA32, heading south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will dive... (more)

At 3:00 pm (15:00) this trainset passed through Orange as Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train operating from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo (Orange County’s "twin c... (more)

Under unusually cloudy skies for southern California in June*, Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, passes the old citrus packing houses along the carrier’s Orange Sub behind... (more)