Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner Train 572 charges for Fullerton doing track speed as it honks for the Lakeland Ave crossing.

Amtrak train 763 heads north of Union Station as another photographer takes a photo of this rare sight on the Surf Line.

An eastbound Q train rolls by Santa Fe Springs.

Santa Fe 3751 and train work steadily through Santa Fe Springs on the final lap of a weekend excursion to San Diego. In a few minutes the special will arrive LAUPT, marking another successful run ... (more)

eastbound Super C Santa Fe Springs, CA

early Amtrak

ATSF 3751 is passing through Santa Fe Springs with the San Diego steam special.

As a teenager not yet old enough to drive, I needed to bum rides to railfan. One Sunday in early 1970, my Dad and I (and Rex, our dog) headed tackside. Here a four-car Santa Fe train 75, a westbo... (more)

Kicking cars at Smith Avenue, we are close to Mile Post 4.2 on the Union Pacific Los Nietos Subdivsion. In Southern Pacific days, this was Mile Post 500.7 on the Puente Branch. SP never saw a Ge... (more)

BNSF train Z-LACALT2-02 is in the charge of Dash 9-44CW 5363 and Norfolk Southern units (Dash 8-40C 8824, SD70M 2641, ES40DC 7660) as it passes through Santa Fe Springs, California, just a few mil... (more)

A San Luis Obispo to San Diego "Pacific Surfliner" crosses Pioneer Boulevard.

A Canadian National SD50F leads BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 4630 and 5174 on a BNSF westbound intermodal train toward Los Angeles, where it will head south through the Alameda Corridor to the Los Angeles Ha... (more)

BNSF 7695 is one of three ES44DC diesels in some variation of the road's new image, and the only one with yellow logos.

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 579 crosses Lakeland Road as it heads west under an old Santa Fe-style signal bridge. AMTK F59PHI 459 is shoving on the rear of this train as it heads from San Die... (more)