Amtrak train 582, a Pacific Surfliner, has just crossed into Santa Ana as it heads from Los Angeles to San Diego. AMTK F59PHI 454, built in June 1998, is pulling this six-car train as it e... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 582 passes through Califia Beach as it skirts the Pacific Ocean, living up to the name Surfliner. F59PHI 460 is pulling this six-car train from Los Angeles ... (more)

Rounding the bend at San Clemente Pier on a misty evening.

Let's Go Ducks! Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #582 departs Anaheim, California's, Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), heading to San Diego, on April 11th, 2015. The stati... (more)

Every year, during Del Mar racing season, one set of Amtrak Surfliners are broken up to add a car each to the others sets (plus three more cars to one super set). To make up for the missing train ... (more)

San Diego bound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #582 passes ties being laid for the new double track segment between Orange and Santa Ana, California, on July 15, 2007.

582 brought a once-common Visitor along for a cruise down the Surfline... C2008 traded its normal San Joaquin Valley Scenery for the Beautiful Southern California Waterfront for a day after getti... (more)

Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" #582 (Los Angeles to San Diego) meets westbound BNSF 5331 just west of the Amtrak/Metrolink station in Fullerton, CA.

At sunset, Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" #582 (a Los Angeles to San Diego train) switches over to the south main at Basta, CA, while westbound BNSF train M-BARLAC1-18 (led by Dash 9-44CW 4796) holds ... (more)

Surfliner heads south as the day draws to a close at San Clemente

Pacific Surfliner locomotive 452 with San Diego Trolley 2044 at Santa Fe Depot. Nikon Coolpix 3200

After the cab car was bad ordered, Amtrak threw the 460 on so 582 could get to San Diego and back. This created confusion the next day as my instructo and I had bets on which end 784's cab car wou... (more)

F59PHi number 450 gets a bath which forecasters swore wouldn't happen. It's ok, we needed it desperately... Just next time, please don't dump on me while I'm photographing!

Departing the Irvine Station, and a seen from a different angle.