Train Day Los Angeles May 7, 2011 Photos by Carl@TrainWeb.com

Fullerton, CA, where we boarded
the Pacific Surfliner to Los Angeles.

Train No. 565, in push mode, arriving at Fullerton.
Several boarded for National Train Day in LA.

PRIVATE CARS

After only 33 minutes on the Pacific Surfliner we were in LA Station, looking at the Private Cars on display.

Virginia City – Business car

Silver Lariat – Coach-Dining-Dome

Silver Rapids – Sleeper

Silver Solarium – Sleeper-Lounge-Dome

Montana – Business car

Silver Solarium – Sleeper-Lounge-Dome	Silver Solarium
Inside the Silver Solarium	Silver Solarium dome

From the Silver Solarium dome at LAUS.	Matthew Morrison in the Silver Solarium dome.
Silver Solarium galley	Poster of the California Zephyr

	Silver Lariat
Virginia City – Business car	Virginia City

Virginia City	Montana – Business car
Montana	Montana

Montana	Montana
Montana	Montana's platform with Don Roe and Matthew Morrison

AMTRAK EQUIPMENT

Coast Starlight

Pacific Parlour car

Dining car

Sleeping car

Superliner Lounge car

Coach Arcade car

Amtrak California Dining car

Pacific Surfliner Business car

Coach Arcade car

Coach Starlight Coach	Superliner Lounge car
Superliner Lounge car	Superliner Lounge car

Coast Starlight Dining Car

Coast Starlight Dining Car Lunch choices

Coast Starlight Dining Car Dinner choices

Pacific Parlour car

	Pacific Parlour Car desserts.
Pacific Parlour Car wines for complimentary wine tasting each afternoon on the trip.	Pacific Parlour Car wine tasting setup.

Pacific Parlour Car dinner plates.

Pacific Parlour Car center seating.

Comfortable seating at the end of the car.

Sleeping car

Bedroom set up for day use.	Bedroom set up for sleeping (lower bed and bunk).
Sink and shower in bedroom.	Superliner Roomette set up for sleeping.

Superliner Roomette set up for day use.	Amtrak California Dining car
Amtrak California Dining car	Pacific Surfliner Business car

Pacific Surfliner Business car
Metrolink Crash Energy Management Car	Metrolink Crash Energy Management Car's Engineer's Compartment

Young visitor to train day.	Normal train operations during Train Day.
In the station tunnel to the tracks, Kurt was taking photos and printing them for guests.	Many photos like this were taken by Kurt (left). This one of me and son Matthew.

FREIGHT RAIL

Union Pacific Genset Locomotive

Pacific Harbor line PHL 80-Series 6-Axle NRE Genset Locomotive

	Union Pacific Genset Locomotive
	Pacific Harbor Line Genset Locomotive

Santa Fe 3751- Steam Engine


Yours Truly

Matthew Morrison	Crewman draining condensation.
The 3751 crew had the massive steam locomotive ready for display before opening time.

Inside Los Angeles Union Station on National Train Day

The Los Angeles Station Grand Hall

Amtrak: Dining the Rail Way:

Catch a glimpse of history as you see how dining on trains has evolved, plus view live culinary demonstrations with celebrity Chefs Marcel Lagnaz and Tom Douglas and sample meals offered in Amtrak's dining cars.

We did get to sample salmon in the former Harvey House at the front of the Los Angeles Union Station. Photos inside the former Harvey House:

From high inside the former Harvey House
Bar on east side of Harvey House.

Dancing in the Plaza	Young performer
Souvenir and food booths around the Plaza.	Plaza decorations

Cooking station for Amtrak Chefs	The mirror on top of the demonstration stand.
	View from inside the Harvey House, through arches, to the main station.

PRS President, Marti Ann Draper at the PRS table. Ken Ruben (right).	Cathy Stanfill hosted the Depot Inn & Suites, Silver Rails Country Booth.
There are new stores inside Union Station.

Amtrak Police K-9 Vehicle.
United Methodist Church on the Plaza	Flute player, playing the theme from Titanic while we listened.

Church on west side of Plaza.
Mexican wrestling masks.	Photo on a donkey, plus a mustache!

Philippe's is a regular destination for rail fans.	Too busy on Train Day, so we went one block west to Chinatown and south for lunch at a BBQ spot.
Entry Gate to Chinatown

Fun Chinatown signs.
The BBQ place where we had lunch is the only restaurant I've been in that provides a whole loaf of bread and roll of paper towel at the table.	My pulled pork lunch with a side of baked beans.

On the short walk back to our train back to Fullerton, we walked out on the bridge over Hwy. 101.	Back of the Church on the Plaza shown earlier.
Old photos of downtown LA in window of museum on the Plaza.

National Train Day

Photos and Text of Train Day by Carl Morrison, Carl@TrainWeb.com

Santa Fe 3751- Steam Engine