The Builder's Plate Calls 'Em Dash 8-40BP, Not P40DC Amtrak San Diegan 574 departs from the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center. Leading this San Diego-bound train is ... (more)

Train Time in Santa Ana.

Amtrak train #574, a southbound San Diegan, arrives at the Santa Ana station on Fourth Street. Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange County, was serve... (more)

Heading south on the number One Main, and approaching the Santa Ana, California, Amtrak/Metrolink station, is BNSF Railway's M-BARSDG1-27A, a merchandise train heading from Barstow to San Diego. ... (more)

Besides along Lincoln Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., where else do trains run so fast so close to private homes? Here was former UP E9 No. 912 racing Amtrak Train 770 at maximum authorized speed o... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #583 (San Diego to Los Angeles) arrived at Santa Ana, California, 45 minutes late on January 15th, 2013. But, since I wasn't a passenger, I didn't mind as it arriv... (more)

The old single-story stucco Santa Fe passenger station in Santa Ana was replaced by this imposing structure - the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center. When the new station, which serves Amtra... (more)

Metrolink train #662 (Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel / Mission Viejo) crosses Santa Ana Boulevard as it rolls into the Santa Ana Transportation Center, making its stop 13 minutes late. Power for th... (more)

Metrolink MP36PH-3C 888 leads train #662 (Los Angeles to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo) out of the Santa Ana, California, Transportation Center on Saturday, January 21, 2012. The train has a pair o... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #573 arrives in Santa Ana, California, ninety-two miles north of the train's origination point of San Diego (and just thirty-six miles from the end point of Los Ang... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 583 departs Santa Ana enroute to Los Angeles.

A southbound San Diegan departs Santa Ana, California, on its way to San Diego in May 1989. The Santa Ana Transportation Center "stood in" for Los Angeles' Union Station in the film "Rain ... (more)

Operating with leased CalTrain cars (from the San Francisco Peninsula service) and Amtrak power and cab cars, the "Orange County Commuter," train 582, began operations on April 30, 1990, continuei... (more)

Operating with leased CalTrain cars (from the San Francisco Peninsula service) and Amtrak power and cab cars, the "Orange County Commuter," train 582, began operations on April 30, 1990, continuin... (more)

Amtrak F59PHI 455 has received a special "wrap" paint job to create awareness of the danger to surfers of crossing the tracks to get to the beach. (Note that the track the surfer is crossing was ... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local, using trackage rights on Metrolink's Orange Sub, hurries past the Santa Ana Amtrak Depot.