Rounding the curve heading into the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (serving Amtrak and Metrolink, along with both local transit and long-distance buses and, soon, light rail!) is BNSF tr... (more)

THIS is a Pacific Surfliner"?!?

Bringing up the rear of Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 790 (Goleta to San Diego), departing the Santa Ana Regional Tran... (more)

Heading to San Diego from Goleta, Amtrak San Diegan 774 makes its stop in Santa Ana. Five-month-old Dash 8-40BP 810 leads this train this day, pulling six Amfleet cars, a baggage car and F... (more)

Rolling into the Santa Ana Transportation Center is Metrolink train 686, with F125 932 on the head-end. This Orange County Line train originated in Los Angeles and will terminate in Irvine … an... (more)

Amtrak train 582, a Pacific Surfliner, has just crossed into Santa Ana as it heads from Los Angeles to San Diego. AMTK F59PHI 454, built in June 1998, is pulling this six-car train as it e... (more)

Union Pacific GP40P-2 has been assigned to the local that originates in Anaheim for several months now, and it is hard to not go out to photograph it as it is one of only three GP40P-2s bui... (more)

On Amtrak's 51st Anniversary, Pacific Surfliner 588 makes its stop at the Santa Ana Transportation Center just after sunset as it heads from Los Angeles to San Diego. California Dep... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad's train LOA32 rolls across Santiago Creek as it crosses from Orange to Santa Ana. This section of its trip from Anaheim to an industrial area in southern Santa Ana has it t... (more)

The Santa Ana Transportation Center is standing in for Spain's "Santa Apolonia" station as it might have appeared in the 1940s - although it may be fictious, as there appears to be no Sa... (more)

With a 5 mph speed limit on this section of Union Pacific’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead, one would think the chase would be fairly easy. But while traffic on parallel Grand Avenue wasn’t bad, I... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 571 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 endpoint of Los Angel... (more)

A Pacific Surfliner makes its station stop at Santa Ana.

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. The... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. Two... (more)

GP40-2 with Flared Radiators!

Now that the power that brought Union Pacific local LOA32 to Santa Ana has cut off and run around the 9-car train, the more interesting locomotive ... (more)