Making a stop in Orange is Metrolink train 602, heading from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo. SCAX F125 907 leads this five-car train on this stormy day. (Orange, California – Febru... (more)

Union Pacific's Marlboro Local, powered by GP40P-2 1375 and GP60 1083, switches tank cars full of polyol at FXI, which manufactures foam mattresses. (Orange, California – February 7, 202... (more)

The conductor of Union Pacific train LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, waves to students walking to the Olive Street Elementary School as the train rolls at 5 miles-per-hour down the center of ... (more)

Bisecting Chapman University is Metrolink train 604, heading to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo from Los Angeles. (Train 604 normally goes all the way to Oceanside, but unstable ground under the main... (more)

The day started off with 2½-inches of rain, but by 16:30 (4:30 pm) the precipitation had ceased long enough ago that the sun had come out by the time Metrolink train 609 rolled past Depot Park an... (more)

Making its stop in Orange is a southbound Metrolink Orange County Line train, behind F59PH 853. (Orange, California – August 20, 2014)

Metrolink F59PH 852 leads train 859, Inland Empire-Orange County service heading from San Bernardino to Oceanside, through the crossover from northbound Track 1 to southbound Track 2 at CP Maple, ... (more)

Following the delivery of a large number of South Korean-built cars from Hyundai-Rotem, Metrolink trains became, visually, a jumbled mess. Locomotives could be painted in one of three paint schem... (more)

Rounding the superelevated curve on the wye at CP Maple, where Metrolink's Orange and Olive subs connect, is Union Pacific's Coast Mesa local, train LOA32. Normally operated with back-to-back Gee... (more)

Since October 2022, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners operating between Los Angeles and San Diego have utilized a "bus bridge" between Irvine and Oceanside due to a massive right-of-way stabiliza... (more)

Union Pacific Costa Mesa Local LOA32 heads south on Metrolink’s Orange Sub, on which it operates from Anaheim to Santa Ana, at which point it switches back to UP trackage. UP GP60 1083 (ex-UP 1... (more)

Passing through the Metrolink station in Orange is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580. This afternoon's train is unusual for two reasons: Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509, usually used as yard power in ... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local normally operates with two GPs, but on this day the second locomotive (GP60 1083) was missing, perhaps sent to West Colton Yard for some routine maintenance. This... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local is underway once again, heading south to Santa Ana with its ten cars, after a delay of nearly an hour trying to get onto Metrolink's Orange Sub at CP Colleg... (more)

BNSF Railway Bi-Level Coach/Lounge 40, the "Fox River," seen in BNSF Officer Special O-LACSDG9-11 (Los Angeles to San Diego) was built by Pullman-Standard in 1955 as Southern Pacific gal... (more)