The conductor waves his hat, signalling a "highball." as the engineer in the cab car on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #583 prepares to depart Fullerton, California, on July 20, 2007. Next (and ... (more)

Santa Fe train M-BALA1-06 passes under the cantilever signal just west of the Amtrak station in Fullerton, California. The railroad would be merged with the Burlington Northern at the end of the y... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Dash 9-44CW 654 (yet to receive its BNSF initials) leads train 9-198-18 as it passes through Basta (west Fullerton) on its way to Los Angeles on February 20, 1997.

Union Pacific's Anaheim Local, headed by GP9 306 (EMD class of 1957) and its caboose, pass over Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton, California, on its way to Anaheim. The bridge is relatively new at ... (more)

A westbound BNSF double-stack train, led by Dash 9-44CWs 5055, 4552, 5043 and CSX Dash 8-40CW 7664, passes the signals at the east end of the platform at the Fullerton (CA) passenger station.

A westbound BNSF double-stack train, behind Dash 9-44CWs 4604 and 1029, along with SD40-2 6930 and CSX ES44DC 5291, passes through the Amtrak/Metrolink station in Fullerton, California on its way ... (more)

BNSF 5414 waits for a signal on track 2 while a MoW crew is repairing a joint on track 1.

A pair of Dash 9-44CWs (4488 and 4871) and a pair of SD40-2s (7805 and 7807) lead BNSF train Q-STLLAC1-12A under the cantilever signal at Fullerton Junction, just east of the Amtrak station in Ful... (more)

A baretable train crawls toward the station because of a slow order.

A stack train sits at the station not long after sunset.

A BNSF MoW crew smooths out the weld that they just completed.

A BNSF MoW crew stopped in the station Friday night to fix a joint which had a large gap. They are heating it up for a Thermit® weld (as best as I understand it). They had quite an audience wat... (more)

During a 30-minute layover in Fullerton between getting off the Southwest Chief and getting on a southbound Metrolink, I am treated to an eastbound Z train.

A WB stack train approaches the station platform.

On its way to pick up a train at Esperanza, these lite engines hold for Amtrak.