One Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trainset per day runs from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, avoiding the more common segment from San Diego to L.A. This is also the only trainset not mad... (more)
Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #573 arrives in Santa Ana, California, ninety-two miles north of the train's origination point of San Diego (and just thirty-six miles from the end point of Los Ang... (more)
Passing under a soon to be removed signal bridge?
The Carl Sandburg rolls east towards Chicago after a 08:56 station stop at Mendota a few minutes ago. BNSF have been replacing the old search light signals between Aurora and Galesburg to upgrade ... (more)
The Gathering. Amtrak motors congregate at Chicago's 18th Street shop, where the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad once serviced its passenger power. The nearest unit wears an advertisi... (more)
Various units linger around the Amtrak shops in Chicago between runs.
It was a nice morning to see this Amtrak Dash 8 leading 303 into Joliet.
Amtrak 500, a P32BWH, leads #300 past UD Tower, after making its station stop at Joliet Union Station.
Amtrak #5.
The only Phase IV Dash 8 presently assigned to the West Coast pool, #509, pitches in on Surfliner duty this day, subbing for a crippled F59PHI with the evening's train to San Luis Obispo, seen her... (more)
Amtrak 774 passes by under a brilliant, clear southern California Fall sky. On the point she's wearing an oddity for this route, a P32-8BWH. Generally they're reserved for long distance trains a... (more)
Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner train 572 has a special treat today: P32-8BWH #509 in beautiful Phase IV paint!
An Amtrak Dash 8, looking great in its classic, Phase IV paint scheme, leads a bad ordered car through Joliet Union Station, headed north to Chicago.
Northbound Surfliner 583 at Laguna Niguel station with a little extra help on the rear end. Those two signals make up CP Crown.
