A former Soo Line business car, built in 1921, brings up the markers (in this case, old school marker lights) as Amtrak San Diegan 578 rushes through the city of Orange on its way from Los ... (more)

The morning's "May Gray" overcast has just burned off and it is a pleasant 73ºF (23ºC) as BNSF Railway's freight to San Diego, the H-BARSDG1-17A, passes through the Metrolink station (... (more)

The conductor on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 785 (San Diego to Goleta) has detrained in order to flag the Palm Avenue grade crossing on Metrolink’s Orange Sub. This train is running about 9... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local, UP LOA32, heads from Anaheim to Santa Ana via Metrolink's Orange Sub behind UP GP40P-2 (one of only three ever built) and GP60 1083 pulling ten cars (2 covered ho... (more)

A 10-car BNSF Railway Officer Special, O-LACSDG9-11, heads south on its way from Los Angeles to San Diego. (The passengers were loaded in Fullerton, however.). BNSF ES44C4 3261 and ET44C4 3695 ha... (more)

Union Pacific train LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local (which hasn't gone to Costa Mesa in decades, as the tracks were removed), rounds the curve at CP Maple on its approach to the city of Orange as it h... (more)

The Costa Mesa Local heads through Orange on the Metrolink Orange Sub main with an ex-SP GP40-2 on the point.

It's "Pi Day"!

Just minutes out of the Anaheim station, Metrolink train 600 (Los Angeles to Oceanside), behind F125 938, rounds the curve at Control Point Maple as the train app... (more)

Having just crossed the Santa Ana River, and in the process also crossing eastward from Anaheim to Orange, Union Pacific train LOA32, the local heading from West Anaheim Yard to southern Santa Ana... (more)

Running 33 minutes late is Metrolink train 684, an Orange County Line train heading to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo from Los Angeles. This 5-car commuter train has SCAX Hyundai-Rotem CTC-5 cab car... (more)

The Marlboro Local works a lead in Orange with a standard cab EMD leader.

LOA32 heads to Marlboro with a genset and GP15 for power.

Metrolink train 815, making its way from downtown San Bernardino to Oceanside, departs its stop in Orange. Metrolink F125 917, shoving on the rear of the train, is seen under a heavy blanket of s... (more)

Metrolink train 600, the first southbound train out of Los Angeles heading south to Orange County and Oceanside, rounds the last curve before arriving at the station in Orange on 2/22/22. This lo... (more)

BNSF Railway sent an empty Business Car Train from Los Angeles to San Diego, and the train, symbolled O-LACSDG1-21A, is seen passing through a Metrolink station on Metrolink’s Orange Sub. BNSF ... (more)