Cutoff - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic cutoff saw to cut a one inch gap between the ends of two 136 lb. rail sections at the Fullerton Train Station. The rai... (more)
Shearing the Excess - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic shear to remove excess iron from a molten weld produced from a Thermite reaction.
It's a passenger train! It's a freight train! It's ... a 30-car mixed train! Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, departs Fullerton, California, on July 13th, 2003 - just shy... (more)
Something you don't get to see everyday at Fullerton. A worker watches as another slices rail off Main #2 at the station. This creates a fantastic show of sparks, flying in all directions. Many p... (more)
A Santa Fe local departs Fullerton behind a pair of GP7u diesels: 2072 (ex-ATSF GP7 2888) and 2069 (ex-ATSF GP7 2832). Each of these units has been rebuilt by the railroad's Cleburne Shops, havin... (more)
In these days of Personal Protective Equipment (safety shoes, safety glasses, ear protection, hardhats and high-visibility reflective safety vests), it is kind of jarring to look at this image fro... (more)
It's a busy evening in Fullerton, California, on October 25th, 2013, as Amtrak "Pacific Surfliner" 784 (Goleta to San Diego) makes a stop on Track 3, while Metrolink train 689, with a leased forme... (more)
While southern California's Metrolink cycles their locomotives out for installation of Positive Train Control (PTC) equipment, the agency has leased three former GO Transit F59PH diesels. Shoving... (more)
The eastbound Southwest Chief arrives into Fullerton, bathed in the glow of the quickly setting sun of a hot California day.
A BNSF M-BARWAT notches through Fullerton
AMTK F7B 398 (ex-AMTK 150, ex-BN 9745, nee-GN 383B) on e/b San Diegan at Fullerton CA – 11/25/74
Amtrak #4 pulls into Fullerton with AMTK #145 on the point on a weekday evening.
Amtrak #4 pulls into Fullerton on a humid summer evening under beautiful skies.
With the humid weather Southern California has been getting this week, this has been a daily thing. An amazing sunset over Orange County with Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolling into its first statio... (more)
