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| I checked out of the hotel in San Diego around 11:00am and started driving back towards Orange County. I decided to stop at a Chick Fil-A in Orange County for lunch since there is no better place for a chicken sandwich ANYWHERE! I then drove back to my Aunt and Uncle's house and dropped off my luggage. I then headed over to the Fullerton Amtrak station as I would participate in a meeting of a local contingent of railfans at the nearby Knollwood Restaurant. I headed over there after spending some time at the Fullerton Station and had dinner. After dinner and good times, a few of us headed back over to the Fullerton Station to see the Eastbound Southwest Chief arrive. I decided I was gonna try to get a night photo of the train so I set up the tripod and then realized that for some reason the previous day, I put my cable release in a pocket in another pair of shorts so I didn't end up having it that night when I needed it! Oops!!! So I ended up improvising and used a pen as a cable release! Oh well, it worked! Included here are photos taken during my late afternoon/evening at Fullerton, enjoy!!! |
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I noticed a fair amount of construction at the station when I arrived and among the upgrades were new
signals. They had yet to be placed into service which is why they're turned to the side. |
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| An overhead view showing the new platform construction looking towards points east and south! |
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| The main station facility at Fullerton, which is on the National Register of Historic Places! |
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| A Southbound Metrolink Commuter Train headed for Oceanside. |
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| You'll see lots of BNSF freights at Fullerton! |
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| Train #582, bound for San Diego, taking a quick break at Fullerton. |
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| A Northbound Metrolink arriving at Fullerton. Metrolink also operates in "push-pull" mode like Amtrak. |
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| A few "cabeese" stored on the sidings at Fullerton. |
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Did I forget to mention somewhere that I love night photography? Here's the eastbound Southwest Chief
taking a break at Fullerton. I had to take this photo using a pen for a cable release due to my misplacing
my actual cable release. Oh well, you do what you have to if you want to get the shot! I think that pen
worked fairly well! Tonight's train had P42DC #47 on the head end, bound for Chicago. |
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Train #589 taking a break at Fullerton, headed for Los Angeles.
Again, a pen makes a good cable release when you need one! |
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| Train #592 at its brief stop at Fullerton, bound for San Diego. |
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| The station looks so nice all lit up at night! |
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| I eventually drove back to my Aunt & Uncle's house after spending a fair amount of time here and called it a day. Fullerton is a great place to see both Surfliner trains as well as a never-ending parade of BNSF freight traffic! I would have one more day left in Southern California before I would have to fly home so I figured I'd go back to San Clemente again because I had so much fun there a couple days ago! Check out the pix in the link below!!! |
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