Roughly 7½ hours earlier, at 6:12 am, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 departed San Luis Obispo for San Diego. A little over two-thirds of the way there, CDTX SC-44 2122 and its six-car train... (more)

Amtrak San Diegan 774 (Santa Barbara to San Diego) pulls into the siding in Orange, just across the Santa Ana River from the Anaheim station, for a rolling meet with northbound San Diega... (more)

Running about an hour late, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 774 passes under the Garden Grove Freeway (CA-22) on November 25, 2018. Making its way to San Diego from San Luis Obispo, this train is... (more)

There are two Pacific Surliner round trips each day that operate the entire 350 miles of the line from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, along California's scenic Pacific Coast. (There are als... (more)

F59PHI 450 leads Pacific Surfliner train 774 south along the shores of Del Mar, CA towards San Diego. Sadly, the paint matching consists are few and far between these days, as Surfliner's F59's ar... (more)

Amtrak #503 was once a frequent visitor to San Diego many years ago when it wore its famed "Pepsi Can" paint scheme. 25 years later, Dash 8's like #503 aren't as frequent visiting "... (more)

On its second day of service wearing its new Veterans paint scheme, Amtrak Non-Powered Control Unit 90208 brings up the markers on Pacific Surfliner #774 as it nears the end of its run from... (more)

Amtrak Veterans unit 42 leads train #774, a southbound Pacific Surfliner (San Luis Obispo CA to San Diego CA) across the lagoons in Encinitas, California, on December 2nd, 2013.

Northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #583 (San Diego CA to Los Angeles CA) waits at CP Morena in San Diego as southbound Pacific Surfliner #774 (San Luis Obispo CA to San Diego CA) sp... (more)

On this first day of July, the clouds and haze have burned away just in time to get a picture of 450 leading a San Diego bound Surfliner train next to the beach along the well-known Surfline.

On a warm Sunday after noon, Amtrak train 774 (lead by AMTK #457) heads Southbound over the Del Mar trestle bridge towards San Diego. AMTK #457 is the Pacific Surfliner's Operation Lifesaver unit.... (more)

Amtrak Phase II heritage unit leads an Amtrak Surfliner train into Fullerton as people that came to visit Fullerton Railroad Days watch this special unit come in to their surprise.

Amtrak 774 passes by under a brilliant, clear southern California Fall sky. On the point she's wearing an oddity for this route, a P32-8BWH. Generally they're reserved for long distance trains a... (more)

Just as southbound Pacific Surfliner 774 arrives into the Burbank (Bob Hope) Airport Amtrak platform, an Alaska Airlines 737 takes off overhead.

A Pacific Surfliner bound for San Diego passes a set of light engines being moved by hostlers at BNSF's Commerce Diesel facility. There certainly are a lot of overhead wires at this location!