Union Pacific local LOA32 makes its way south on Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s (Metrolink) Orange Sub, which it hopped on in Anaheim and will diverge off of in Santa Ana in order... (more)

They're Baaaack!

After spending a few weeks working on a maintenance-of-way train, supposedly retired 29-year-old F59PH 868 is back in passenger service! Metrolink train 812 ... (more)

Paired locomotives on Metrolink trains is usually rare, but in this case F125 904 is so new, despite its low number, that it has been teamed with 908 for break-in runs. Both engines were built in... (more)

BNSF and UP GEs cross the Santa Ana River with a military train bound for San Diego.

Rolling south through the Orange Metrolink station, Union Pacific train LOA32 hauls three cars to Santa Ana. Power for this train are UP GP60s 1105 (ex-UP 1950; née-SSW 9648) and 1083 (the forme... (more)

As the remnants of a cold winter storm cluster around the San Gabriel Mountains in the late afternoon, the 20,000-foot high cumulonimbus clouds at the higher elevations were still bathed in late t... (more)

As the remnants of a cold winter storm cluster around the San Gabriel Mountains in the late afternoon, the 20,000-foot high cumulonimbus clouds at the higher elevations were still bathed in late t... (more)

Southern California is, once again, seeing drought conditions thanks to a La Niña condition in the Pacific Ocean. A quick trip to the Post Office became a longer trip home when the signals at th... (more)

BNSF’s "Daygo," the freight to San Diego, cruises down Metrolink’s Orange Sub behind Dash 9-44CW 5032 and a pair of ET44C4s. This train, symbolled H-BARSDG1-27A; originated in Barst... (more)

At the last light of day Metrolink train 688, operating on the southbound on the system’s Orange County Line (heading from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo) has shut its ditchlights of... (more)

Metrolink train 689, heading to Los Angeles from Irvine, makes a stop on the Orange County Line. SCAX MP36PH-3C 902, resplendent it perhaps Metrolink’s least-attractive paint scheme (almost all... (more)

California Department of Transportation SC-44 2116 pulls a six car Pacific Surfliner through Chapman University as it heads from Goleta to San Diego. Train 768 has an eclectic set of cars ... (more)

As Metrolink train 857 made its way south on the carrier’s Olive Sub, offering weekend service between inland San Bernardino and the aptly-named Oceanside, stuck a trespasser in a "non-pedestria... (more)

The San Gabriel Mountains have finally gotten their first coating of snow for the season, and the following day Metrolink Orange County Line train 684 passes through Control Point (CP) Maple, and ... (more)

The Costa Mesa Local heads through Orange on Metrolink rails with a single GP60 rebuild leading the way.