An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner shoves its way towards LA (looming in the background) as it crosses the LA River on the Redondo Flyover.

A northbound Surfliner heads between Budweiser buildings as it heads into single-track territory.

This P40 has spent a good amount of time on the west coast.

A Pacific Surfliner train rolls out of town.

Amtrak purchased 207 General Electric P42DC locomotives, and the last of them leads a Pacific Surfliner through CP Maple in Orange, California, on August 14, 2019. This train, number 566, ... (more)

Tickets are checked as passengers board the "Pacific Business Class Coach" on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 580. Car 6804 is named for "more)

In January 1975, Amtrak train 772, the mid-morning San Diegan, crosses from Fullerton into Anaheim on its way from Los Angeles to San Diego. SDP40F 511 can easily pull this four-car train ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 768 departs Fullerton, California, on the Ides of March 2019. This train, with CDTX SC-44 2119 for power, originated in Goleta (near Santa Barbara) and is heading ... (more)

Trying to make up a little time, because it is already 9 minutes late just 33 miles into its 128 mile journey from Los Angeles to San Diego, is Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 566. The train is p... (more)

On January 20, 2019, there are only three Amtrak F59PHIs left in Pacific Surfliner service. One of those, Amtrak 451, leads weekend train 1564 through the campus of Chapman College in Oran... (more)

Amtrak 1573, a weekend service train traveling from San Diego to Los Angeles, crosses the Santa Ana River and, in the process, crosses from the city of Orange into Anaheim. The train is slowing f... (more)

There are two Pacific Surliner round trips each day that operate the entire 350 miles of the line from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, along California's scenic Pacific Coast. (There are als... (more)

Amtrak San Diegan 573 passes between the Pacific Ocean (beyond the train) and the Agua Hedionda Lagoon (which Santa Fe's Fourth District - also known, for obvious reasons; as the "Surf... (more)

A Los Angeles bound Amtrak "San Diegan" is just a minute or two out of it's Del Mar station stop along the California coast

An eastbound San Diegan was rounding the 15 mph curve at Redondo Jct heading for San Diego. This is the site of the tragic crash of a pair of Santa Fe RDC cars in JAN 1956.