Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 763 skirts along the Pacific Ocean near Ventura on a slightly foggy morning. Photo taken from Amtrak's Great Dome.
A southbound Pacific Surfliner heads along the Pacific Coast Highway, bypassing multi-million dollar beachfront homes and the picturesque Left Coast along the way.
The Pacific Surfliner experiences some of it's ocean front running here at San Clemente. In the background it has just left the San Clemente pier and is heading south to San Diego.
The returning southbound TranzCoastal train heads south from Kaikoura in the late afternoon. While in Kaikoura you can whale watch, swim with dolphins, watch the fur seals, eat at Hine's fish-and-... (more)
The crew perform a blowdown on this most photographed bridge, while the waves of the Indian Ocean break on the sand below.
The Tricolour flies proudly as an SNCF TGV crosses the viaduct at Mandelieu-la-Napoule.
At the end of the earth: After being a tourist in New Zealand with the good woman for the past few weeks, I finally get a trainspotting day pass and have to drive 300km north in cloud before fin... (more)
And my vote for world's worst livery goes to... DFT 7023 heads the Picton-bound TranzCoastal passenger right onto the beach beside the Pacific Ocean. It wears the horrid faded-vomit paint scheme a... (more)
Frankenstein DX 5310 leads DC 4784, DFT 7213 and DC 4473 north with a short goods train past the Pacific Ocean coastline north of Palmerston.
The lower section of the ultra-scenic Cape Town - Simonstown line runs adjacent to the sea. In December 2009 the line was damaged by a freak combination of high tide and big storms. At one stage i... (more)
Skirting the Pacific Ocean. Beachgoers hardly notice the Coaster along the bluffs, but I'm sure the Friday evening commuters wish they were on the sandy shores o the Pacific a hundred feet ... (more)
The EMU 3504 doing a service Bilbao-Bermeo.
Heading to Sacramento from San Jose, the four units make up one of the early OLS trains
A good size UP stack train, led by 7403, snakes it's way along the San Pablo Bay on a very Pleasant California Summer day.
Who would want to live anywhere else? ... expect maybe Pittsburgh :)