Cabcar 2307 first into San Diego Station

The red and white Scotchlite face of this Metra Cab Control Car creates quite a contrast to the foliage east of Naperville.

The amazing thing of the late night/early morning coastal fog and clouds (June Gloom) is that it can be thick fog just a mile west of bright sun.

From this view, it is easy to see how Hill Yard earned its nickname "The Silver Yard". The Metra/BNSF fleet even receives regular coats of silver paint on the trucks.

Old cab control car METX 810 sits among the newer cars, easily identified by the lack of stripes on the end doors, at Hill Yard under one of the smaller HEP bridges used to power trains while they... (more)

That is the historic North Torrey Pines Road Bridge in the background.

METX 8469 departs Berwyn about 10 minutes late after waiting for some frieght traffic to clear.

Amtrak Cab Control Car 6903 leads a Northbound Pacific Surfliner into Oceanside California.

Red markers lit, Amtrak Cab Control Car 6900 brings up the rear of a Pacific Surfliner as it rolls by the platform at San Clemente on its way to San Diego.

Kicking up a sizeable dust cloud, A northbound Pacific Surfliner skirts along the Pacific Ocean as it approaches San Clemente at a high rate of speed.

Almost silently, an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner led by cab control car 6900 descends Mirimar Hill.

Not something to be seen on most US Railroads, the speedometer hits 92 MPH on the SurfLine.

Looking back from the conductor's side window on Cab Control Car 6952, we can see F59PHI 457 shoving our 6-car Surfling by the life guard house on a very popular San Clemente Beach.

Glowing in late afternoon light, Metrolink Cab-Control Car 633 sits at the Metrolink Station in San Bernardino with the Magnificant Former Santa Fe Station in the background.

One of the elderly cab cars leads the 09:14 suburban out of Berwyn Depot.