Metrolink train 689 (Irvine to Los Angeles) makes its stop in Fullerton just after sunset on a cool winter day. SCAX 855, the F59PH shoving this train, will serve Metrolink for just another seven... (more)

A westbound BNSF intermodal train rolls through Basta, the location where Union Pacific’s Anaheim Branch crossed the Santa Fe’s Third District, which these venerable cantilever signals protect... (more)

Santa Fe’s hot intermodal train, the eastbound Super C (symboled as 891), makes a very brief stop in Fullerton to pick up a "suit," as some managers used this train to quickly move betwee... (more)

Speeding through the passenger station in Fullerton is Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C. Known as the "World's Fastest Freight Train," the Super C was an all-piggyback trai... (more)

BNSF ES44DC 7309 leads Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACNYC9-10 through the Fullerton Transportation Center as it makes its way from Los Angeles CA to New York NY. (The second engine in the... (more)

East Meets West … And They Are Both Late

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief (behind P42DCs 23 and 163), has just arrived on Track 3 at the Fullerton Transportat... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 6022, one of the railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, leads 7285-foot train S-ALTLHA1-14 (Alliance TX to Los Angeles Harbor Pier 400) westward through … um … uh … well, cr... (more)

Two miles west of the Fullerton passenger station is Basta, the location for most of the Twentieth Century was the location where Union Pacific’s Anaheim Branch crossed the Santa Fe’s Third Di... (more)

Following a fairly minor derailment on the morning of March 17 the BNSF Railway contracted with Hulcher Services to rerail three diesels that hit the ties in Fullerton. The trailing engine, BNSF ... (more)

Built by the Santa Fe Railway in 1930, this Spanish Colonial Revival-style station replaced the town’s original 1888-built Victorian depot. Today, this station is owned by the Fullerton Redeve... (more)

Following a fairly minor derailment on the morning of March 17 the BNSF Railway contracted with Hulcher Services to rerail three diesels that hit the ties in Fullerton. The trailing engine, BNSF ... (more)

This looks worse than it actually was. BNSF train B-BIRLAC3-12A, a baretable train (empty intermodal cars), heading from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles, was going to set some of these cars out on a... (more)

A BN caboose brings up the rear of the 2nd La Mirada at Fullerton.

As southbound Metrolink train 684 (Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo) departs the station, BNSF Railway train Q-LPCLAC3-20 heads west behind ES44C4 3269, ES44DC 7290, Dash 9-44CW 4762 and... (more)

An AC4400 leads a consist that includes three EMDX Tier 4 lease units through Fullerton.