Coaster F40PH-2C 2105 leads train #653 across the lagoons in San Diego's Sorrento Valley as it makes its way north to Oceanside on July 27, 2011.

Passengers disembark Coaster train 684, which pulled in from Oceanside less than a minute before.

Hey back East people, would you stop complaining about the snow? We're struggling through another brutal winter here in San Diego too :)

Seen passing the famed Del Mar Race Track. Many good memories of dressing up, drinking a ton and losing alot of money on Opening Day...

Coaster Cab Car 2308 is now heading away from us across the trestle at Del Mar heading into a station stop at Solana Beach.

With multi-million dollar homes above, Coaster Cab Car 2308 leads a train south through Del Mar just 400 feet above the beach below.

Coaster train 645 crosses Los Peñasquitos Lagoon on its way from Oceanside to San Diego on August 10, 2009. In the background is the Pacific Ocean, and the coastal eddy, which is creating overca... (more)

Coaster 2101 pushes its train south towards San Diego as it skirts the Pacific coast.

Skirting the Pacific Ocean. Beachgoers hardly notice the Coaster along the bluffs, but I'm sure the Friday evening commuters wish they were on the sandy shores o the Pacific a hundred feet ... (more)

Southbound traffic along the foggy Pacific Ocean includes a morning inbound Coaster as well as a dog and his owner.

Coaster tail end passes the Delmar Surf Station, former ATSF station, with a green signal indicating clear on the main and red northbound indication for the second station track leading into the S... (more)

The San Diego trolleys are disgorging unhappy Padres fans, many of whom are now boarding Coaster trains to continue their homeward journeys. The San Diego Padres lost 2-1 to the Milwaukee Brewers... (more)

Train station in Paradise

A rebuilt F40PH shoves an early morning southbound Coaster, crossing over the Soledad Lagoon.