This P40 has spent a good amount of time on the west coast.

A Pacific Surfliner train rolls out of town.

Amtrak purchased 207 General Electric P42DC locomotives, and the last of them leads a Pacific Surfliner through CP Maple in Orange, California, on August 14, 2019. This train, number 566, ... (more)

Tickets are checked as passengers board the "Pacific Business Class Coach" on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 580. Car 6804 is named for "more)

In January 1975, Amtrak train 772, the mid-morning San Diegan, crosses from Fullerton into Anaheim on its way from Los Angeles to San Diego. SDP40F 511 can easily pull this four-car train ... (more)

On January 20, 2019, there are only three Amtrak F59PHIs left in Pacific Surfliner service. One of those, Amtrak 451, leads weekend train 1564 through the campus of Chapman College in Oran... (more)

Amtrak 1573, a weekend service train traveling from San Diego to Los Angeles, crosses the Santa Ana River and, in the process, crosses from the city of Orange into Anaheim. The train is slowing f... (more)

There are two Pacific Surliner round trips each day that operate the entire 350 miles of the line from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, along California's scenic Pacific Coast. (There are als... (more)

Amtrak San Diegan 573 passes between the Pacific Ocean (beyond the train) and the Agua Hedionda Lagoon (which Santa Fe's Fourth District - also known, for obvious reasons; as the "Surf... (more)

A Los Angeles bound Amtrak "San Diegan" is just a minute or two out of it's Del Mar station stop along the California coast

An eastbound San Diegan was rounding the 15 mph curve at Redondo Jct heading for San Diego. This is the site of the tragic crash of a pair of Santa Fe RDC cars in JAN 1956.

On a brisk winter afternoon along the Metrolink Ventura Subdivision, northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train #777 approaches its station stop at the Hollywood-Burbank Airport.

Nearing Los Angeles, northbound Pacific Surfliner train #1573 sails through Commerce on BNSF's San Bernardino Subdivision with an ex-F40 NPCU "cabbage car" leading the way.

On its evening run down to San Diego, southbound Pacific Surfliner train #580 passes through Santa Fe Springs with a brand new Amtrak/Caltrans SC-44 "Charger" powering the single-level c... (more)

A new Siemans Charger leads Northbound Pacific Surfliner Train No. 763 to San Luis Obispo thru Faria Beach.