SCAX 910, a new EMD F125, leads a test train consisting of 12 cars and another F125 on the rear (SCAX 911) east past CP White as it prepares to stop and wait for a westbound Metrolink before rever... (more)

SCAX 910, a new EMD F125, leads a test train consisting of 12 cars and another F125 on the rear (SCAX 911) east past CP White as it prepares to stop and wait for a westbound Metrolink before rever... (more)

Old and New. SCAX 883, an F59PHI built by EMD in 1995 meets its new counterpart and ultimately replacement, SCAX 910, an EMD F125 testing on the San Bernardino Line. Once the tier 4-complia... (more)

SCAX 910, a new EMD F125 unit, leads a 12 car test train with #905 on the rear on a Sunday afternoon through Claremont. Once testing on these locomotives is completed within the next 1-2 months th... (more)

A warm late afternoon in the Antelope Valley along Metrolink's Valley Subdivision finds the F125 test train with SCAX 905 tied down in the set-out track near the Vincent Grade/Acton station. For t... (more)

It's not every day you get to see an EMD F125 at the head of a 10-car train almost entirely made up of retired Bombardier cabcars. Here we see SCAX 905, the first of Metrolink's new locomotives to... (more)

Metrolink's New F125 conducts grade crossing signal testing on the Pasadena Sub. (Photo taken by railroad employee during a public event, no trespassing involved)

Metrolink Pride

On June 10, 2017, California’s Metrolink conducted tests with their first operable F125. SCAX 905 was built by Electro-Motive in May 2016, and delivered to Metroli... (more)

As mechanical issues continue to plague Metrolink's newest locomotives - the Electro Motive Division (EMD), Tier IV compliant F125 - some of the last remaining veterans of the Santa Fe Railway's o... (more)

With the sun setting behind a snow storm, Metrolink's newest locomotive is in the process of being delivered by the BNSF Railway as it makes its way over the Arizona Divide. The new locomotive is ... (more)

The new leader of the pack. One of Metrolink's new F125 "Spirit" Tier 4 locomotives, the third built, though the first to be delivered, sits on display at Los Angeles Union Statio... (more)

Metrolink's first Tier IV diesel, F125 #905 is the lead unit on a display train being set up for an event the following day at Los Angeles Union Station.

The New Face of Metrolink

If you cross your eyes and let them go out of focus, it kind of, sort of, looks like an F-unit. Maybe. OK, not really. But, still, it is an F-unit. T... (more)

Ready to Meet the Public

Metrolink's first (and, so far, only) F125 will be on display at Los Angeles Union Station on Monday, July 18, 2016. The engine arrived a day early to get s... (more)

Metrolink's newest locomotive, SCAX 905 has arrived at Keller Yard in Los Angeles, CA by BNSF Railway.