Amtrak 546 passes Alviso just after sunset with an F59 on the rear.

An extra long and double ended Amtrak 1566 deadhead takes the Roundhouse Lead to San Diego Jct. enroute to LAUS as some F59s, F125s and Metrolink's sole F40PH sit at Keller.

Southbound Pacific Surfliner no. 768 with 2117 pushing, crosses Garden St at sunrise as it leaves Santa Barbara for Los Angeles.

1564 departs LA just after sunrise with a then-brand new Charger at the helm.

767 heads through the farmland between Camarillo and Oxnard.

Bringing up the rear of train 769, an Amtrak California B32-8 is about to pass under the Metro Gold Line's former Santa Fe route towards Pasadena.

763 departs LA with an AmCal B32 on the rear.

An extra long 9 car Amtrak 769 rushes through Burbank with an Amtrak California Dash 8 trailing the consist.

January 2018 was an interesting time on the Coast Line. Due to massive mud slides, Amtrak service was the only way that many Santa Barbara and Carpinteria residents had access to the outside world... (more)

A Charger brings up the rear of 573 on one its first revenue runs up the Surf Line.

1564 passes San Clemente South Beach with a pair of Chargers bracketing a single level set.

Anacapa Island (on the left) and Santa Cruz Island (on the right) stand out against the sunset over the Santa Barbara Channel. Pacific Surfliner no. 777 the northbound to San Luis Obispo rolls pa... (more)

The last rays of sunset still light the Santa Barbara Subdivision at Faria, as Pacific Surfliner no.777 crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road.

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 765 (San Diego to Goleta), with CDTX SC-44 "Charger" 2110 pushing the six-car train, is about to make the left turn at Mission Tower and head into stub-en... (more)

Having spent the holidays in New York with the grandkids, we missed all the precipitation that occurred in southern California (darn it … us natives love when it rains here!). But on our first ... (more)