The Orange County Wheelman's Society Chartered Special is seen laying over in San Diego waiting for the club of about 250 people to arrive and Board. Coaster 648 has just arrived on track 1.

AMTRAK 453 crosses the Soledad Lagoon on a beautiful San Diego morning.

A Pacific Surfliner skims along a lagoon near Del Mar, California

The Foreman ends his daily inspection at Broadway Street, right at the East end of the Depot. After leaving the rails he went back and paid some extra attention to one of the leads at the West En... (more)

An outbound commuter train flees the downtown cubicles. TGIF!

One of the two CalTrans-owned Cab Cars in Surfliner service leads the late-afternoon Surfliner across Soledad Lagoon and toward Los Angeles.

Ready to leave San Diego for LA, an Amtrak San Diegan sports mostly Santa Fe equipment, the Amtrak lettered combine the only outward indication that this is no longer a Santa Fe train. An REA Expr... (more)

Almost two years into Amtrak's existence, the former Santa Fe "San Diegan" service is a mixture of equipment. The Santa Fe F and a mix of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific cars rest at San Diego's dep... (more)

SDNX 2101 amd SDNX 2102 pausing briefly at Sorrento Valley

SDNX 2102 leading into Sorrento Station

As much as I'm liking the Northeast Corridor, I'm already feeling some nostalgia for my colorful home... six more weeks to go.

On only its second day back in service after spending four-and-a-half years at Beech Grove and Alstom following a grade collision and fire, 6901 poses under the Depot lights while I take my lunch ... (more)

"Two-Fourty-Six-One clear, Six-Fifty-Five over!" (*begins blowing the M3 for the pedestrian crossing :-D)

F40 #214 has just arrived in San Diego and it, along with the first coach, have cut away from the train. A second F40 on the rear will take the train back to Los Angeles with the former Metroliner... (more)