On the last full day of summer 2020, Metrolink train 689 passes through CP Maple as it heads to Los Angeles with F125 919 shoving on the rear. SCAX 919 was built by EMD in February 2017, but did ... (more)

The rear DPUs on a late San Diego-bound freight cross the Santa Ana River as they head down the Metrolink Olive Sub.

The "Ranch 2" fire was burning in the Angeles National Forest above Azusa, with the fire destroying 2,500 acres with just 3% containment as of Saturday morning. By afternoon, the fire had created... (more)

Fresh from the Siemens AG factory in Florin, a part of Sacramento, California, are the first two SC-44 "Chargers" for San Diego County's Coaster commuter trains. The engines were picked up at the... (more)

Heading through CP Maple is Union Pacific train LOA32, which originated in Anaheim and is now heading to Santa Ana to deliver two tank cars to Behr Paint. UP GP60 1064 (ex-UP 1909, originally Sou... (more)

The H-BARSDG1 heads across the Santa Ana River as they bring a long San Diego-bound manifest over Metrolink rails towards its destination.

Making a stop in Orange is Metrolink train 633, heading from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo to Los Angeles. (Fun fact: There is no mission in Mission Viejo.) Train 633 is one of the few operating ... (more)

BNSF Railway train J-SDGDAG-24A is the longest six-car train you’ll ever see, as nearly half the train’s length is made up by Kasgro Rail Lines Schnabel car 3600. KRL 3600 is, at 270-feet 7.2-inc... (more)

On Memorial Day 2020, the holiday lull in rail traffic was taken advantage of when a special high/wide load was hauled from San Onofre, in northern San Diego County to Apex, Nevada. Morning passe... (more)

A daylight run to San Diego for BNSF vehicle train V-BARSDG4-23A, as it passes through CP Maple in the city of Orange, as the train comes off Metrolink’s Olive Sub and joins Metrolink’s Orange Sub... (more)

Metrolink train 686, one of the carrier’s commuter trains still operating on a COVID-19 reduced schedule, accelerates out of the station in Orange California, on spectacular April 8, 2020, afterno... (more)

On Tuesday, March 24, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners began operating on a reduced service schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under this new schedule, Pacific Surfliner service has ... (more)

On March 1, 2020, a cut-off low created a storm that dropped snow on southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains. On March 2, 2020, the freshly snow-covered San Gabriels providing a nice backdrop... (more)

The old Santa Fe passenger station in Orange, California, replaced a wooden structure, and was dedicated on May 1, 1938. This depot remained in service until Santa Fe discontinued passenger train... (more)

As Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 passes through CP Maple in the city of Orange, California, Metrolink commuter train 683 departs the commuter station there. CDTX SC-44 2114 is leading the s... (more)