At 3:00 pm (15:00) this trainset passed through Orange as Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train operating from Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo (Orange County’s "twin c... (more)

The last inbound OC Line train of the day passes through San Juan Capistrano as they pass a "free" TV along the ROW.

Metrolink train 689 (Irvine to Los Angeles) makes its stop in Fullerton just after sunset on a cool winter day. SCAX 855, the F59PH shoving this train, will serve Metrolink for just another seven... (more)

Metrolink train 710 is just a few minutes out of Los Angeles’ Union Station and is skirting the Los Angeles River as it heads south on the West Bank Line on SCRRA’s River Sub in downtown Los A... (more)

Metrolink 858 meets a B-PHXLAC at Esperanza.

Under unusually cloudy skies for southern California in June*, Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, passes the old citrus packing houses along the carrier’s Orange Sub behind... (more)

They're Baaaack!

After spending a few weeks working on a maintenance-of-way train, supposedly retired 29-year-old F59PH 868 is back in passenger service! Metrolink train 812 ... (more)

20-Cylinder Madness Metrolink 860 departs Oceanside with a new F125 locomotive.

Paired locomotives on Metrolink trains is usually rare, but in this case F125 904 is so new, despite its low number, that it has been teamed with 908 for break-in runs. Both engines were built in... (more)

A couple of days following my previous shots of the Metrolink rail train, the train was still waiting out the days on the Coast Siding, as seen here with the Burbank skyline behind it. This would ... (more)

Metrolink's rail train waits in Coast Siding while train 121 roars by behind a Boise Bullet.

Metrolink's oldest and newest F units are shown here as an F59 waits with a rail train and an F125 shoves a commuter train towards LA in Burbank. (Note, Metrolink did have four F40s, only one of w... (more)

Two recently retired F59s were pulled from the dead line and put back into service for MOW work in March and April of 2021 and are seen here awaiting their night crew on the Coast Siding in Burban... (more)

119 heads west as fire burns in the background.

Metrolink 661 arrives in LA with an F59 on the rear.