Operating as the largest train on the Pacific Surfliner system, a nine-car, all matching consist of "California cars" (minus one Surfliner painted Superliner...you can't win them all!) makes up Am... (more)

With the addition of multiple cars to its normal six-car consist to help carry the increase in Thanksgiving travelers, Amtrak 782 finds itself with an SC-44 "Charger" locomotive on the south end o... (more)

Northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner No. Triple 7 led by F59PHI No. 455 rounds around the bottom Of Faria Beach on a overcast evening. It had been a wet Winter and the coast has turned green as Sp... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners are so named because for much of their trip through southern California, they skirt the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs in Del Mar, not too far north of San Diego, pr... (more)

Amtrak train 593, the last northbound Pacific Surfliner of the day (thanks to reduced schedules during the COVID-19 pandemic) makes its stop just before 9:00 pm (21:00) in Anaheim, Californ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 580, one of the six southbound trains operating on the COVID-19 reduced schedule, departs the Santa Ana (California) Regional Transportation Center (it’s much mor... (more)

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

Something no longer seen on passenger trains today are the wisps of steam that, on cooler days, enveloped much of the train. Amtrak SDP40F 503, powering San Diegan 770, is clearly equipped with a... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean, Amtrak train 572 is living up to its Pacific Surfliner name as it skirts the beach along the expensive real estate of the Del Mar Bluffs. Amtrak P42DC 172, a Ju... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 777 has just departed the Fullerton, California, train station with Cab/Baggage/Coach 6908 ("Point Estero") leading. On the rear of this six-car train is... (more)

Amtrak’s highest-numbered P42DC, 207, arrives in Anaheim with Pacific Surfliner 744 from San Luis Obispo 25 minutes behind the advertised. This train consists of 7 cars, with CDTX SC-44 ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 582 passes through Califia Beach as it skirts the Pacific Ocean, living up to the name Surfliner. F59PHI 460 is pulling this six-car train from Los Angeles ... (more)

Northbound Amtrak No.759 minutes from Santa Barbara rounds Ortega Hill at sunrise with Siemans 2018 and a set of low level cars.

Just as the sun sets below the horizon, Amtrak train 1584 arrives at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), the new Amtrak and Metrolink passenger station between Anaheim, ... (more)