Amtrak 777 sails towards Burbank Jct. with a beat up P42 on the point. They're currently traveling on the Metrolink Valley Subdivsion, and will soon be diverging onto the Ventura Sub to Moorpark, ... (more)

767 heads through the farmland between Camarillo and Oxnard.

774 pulls away from Mission Tower and San Diego Jct. on their way out of LA.

572 pulls into San Clemente with an F59 leading and a couple Superliner coaches mixed into the consist.

Dana Point has one of the more obscure ocean-view shots of the group on Amtrak's Surfliner service. Train 565 heads away from the camera, bound for LA with an F59 on the markers.

Amtrak 1566 heads through CP-Bake on their way towards San Diego.

The Vets cabbage leads 583 into San Clemente on a hot June afternoon.

The Veterans cabbage leads 583 around the bend at Maple and a train of Horizon coaches.

774 comes into San Clemente with a pair of P42s including the Vets unit.

This is January? It is hard to tell which season it is when the temperature is 79º F (26º C) at 11:00 am in January! At least the San Gabriel Mountains still have some s... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 767 passes the old Santa Fe depot in Carlsbad as it rushes to the next stop on its way to Los Angeles, Oceanside, three miles ahead. This charming station was buil... (more)

Amtrak 768 crosses the San Pedro Sub at Hobart Tower as the train begins the 2nd half of its journey to San Diego.

583 comes into LA on an unseasonably warm afternoon.

Hugging the coastline as it heads south to San Diego is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 768, which originated in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. Cruising along the Pacific Ocean at milepost 206, this... (more)

Engineer Bob Mellor prepares to take to take Amtrak 777 out of Simi Valley. Of special interest to model railroaders, today's train includes a long-distance sightseer lounge car in the consist, wh... (more)