It is a cloudless day, yet this shot appears to be a "storm light" shot due to the heavy smoke from a massive fire in the Corona/Yorba Linda/Brea area a few miles to the northeast - that is a lot ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #768, in the charge of specially painted F59PHI 455, races through Orange, California, on its way from Goleta to San Diego on a bright Sunday morning.

Hauling 24 privately owned (and very colorful) passenger cars, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 rounds the curve at the wye in Orange, California, on its way to San Diego. The train is part of the AARPCO Conv... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 and Amtrak P42DC 117 take a Los Angeles to San Diego special through Orange, California, on June 1, 2008. At this point, the train was about 35 miles into the trip, and over a... (more)

The 3751 special from LA to the Fullerton Railroad Days weekend actually went as far as Orange, and then used the natural wye created by the 5-mile Olive Subdivision to turn the train. Seen backi... (more)

Southern Pacific SW1500 2497 teams with Union Pacific SW1500 1007 on the local to Costa Mesa. The UP has trackage rights on five miles of the SCAX "Orange Subdivision" between Anaheim and Santa A... (more)

Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" #775, with F59PHI 464 shoving on the rear, passes the old packing houses in Orange, California, on its way from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. The San Gabriel Mountains ... (more)

There is fresh snow on the San Gabriel Mountains as Metrolink train 656, with F59PH 867 in the lead, makes its stop at the Orange, California, station on a clear (and cold) December afternoon. Th... (more)

Amtrak train #572, a Pacific Surfliner, passes through Orange, California, after making a stop in Anaheim (just on the other side of the 57 Freeway in the background). Behind the six cars ... (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.

Metrolink's "Santa's Holiday Toy Express," behind F59PH 865, makes it scheduled stop in Orange, CA, on November 26, 2006.

The tri-weekly UP Costa Mesa Local, exercising trackage rights over Metrolink, passes a northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner in Orange, CA.

An Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner," headed to San Diego (from Goleta), meets Metrolink train 808 (Oceanside to San Bernardino, with F59PH 868 on the headend) at the Metrolink station in Orange.

It is the first day of weekend service on Metrolink's Orange Line, and train 655 is the first train of the day. The line is the former Santa Fe Coast Line -- note the street sign. (A tall step l... (more)

It is train 655's inagural run, as Saturday service on Metrolink's Orange line gets underway with the first train of the day making a stop at the former Santa Fe station in Orange.