It is sunset, both literally and figuratively, for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, as on October 12, 2020, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, San Francisco Zephyr, Empire Builder an... (more)

BNSF Railway train R-CAL0081-30I, the "2nd La Mirada" local, is a local with a pair of former Santa Fe GP60Ms for power: BNSF 127 and 141. This train is heading back to the yard in La ... (more)

Twenty minutes after the westbound H-BARWAT passed through Fullerton, its eastbound counterpart, H-WATBAR9-30A, approaches the passenger station as it leaves the setting sun behind. Even on a hot... (more)

Each day, the near constant parade of intermodal trains on BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub through Fullerton is broken up by a few locals, as well as a pair of "loose car" freight trains: T... (more)

Metrolink train 606 (Los Angeles to Oceanside) rolls into the Fullerton Transportation Center under a gloaming sky on the last day of September. Metrolink F125 932 is one of forty on Metrolink’... (more)

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, has operated as a daily train for nearly 50 years (although not always with that name, as it was originally the Southwest Limited). That ends in a couple... (more)

Amtrak 458 pulling into beautiful Fullerton located at MP 165.

Just after sunset on another smoky day in the Western US, BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-12 (High Priority Merchandise, Barstow to Watson) is about to get overtaken by another westbound (the S-LPKSC... (more)

BNSF 4718, still wearing its original "Warbonnet" paint in 2020, has come to a stop at Basta to wait for the passage of a number of trains, including the eastbound Southwest Chief. Racin... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads west through Fullerton behind a quartet of EMD GPs: GP30 – GP35 – GP30 – GP35. All four are still in the original blue and yellow paint scheme, although they all c... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-STPLAC1-07 sits on Track 2 at Basta as it waits for the afternoon "Passenger Parade," in which the dispatchers give priority to the many Amtrak and Metrolink passeng... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway business train approaches Fullerton. At just four months old, there are not many locomotives relettered for the new road yet, let alone any of th... (more)

Once in a while, one of Union Pacific’s routes through the Los Angeles Basin gets shut down by maintenance, or a lack of maintenance, and some hot UP trains have to detour on the BNSF Railway. ... (more)

It was a beautiful late-Spring day in southern California … until some eastern interlopers arrived to smoke it up! Rolling down Main 2 from Fullerton Junction, BNSF Railway train Q-AUGLA... (more)

A pair of passenger trains call on the original Santa Fe station at Fullerton on this cool winter afternoon, being the BNSF Railway's Southern California Division Christmas Train and a northbound ... (more)