San Diego Creek just east of the Tustin Metrolink station. Surfliner 578 3/13/2007
The San Joaquin Hills that run between Irvine and the Pacific Ocean. 3/13/2007
Saddleback Mountain. 3/13/2007
The former El Toro Marine Base, soon to be the Great Park if Orange County follows its plan. 3/13/2007
San Joaquin Hills with Irvine Meadows, now know as Verizon Amphitheater, in the foreground. 3/13/2007
Rancho Capistrano, a private school with huge athletic fields. 3/13/2007
Some of the soccer fields at Rancho Capistrano. 3/13/2007
The last orange grove that the Pacific Surfliners pass through in Orange County. 3/13/2007
Where orange trees once stood. 3/13/2007
Some days when you reach the shore of the Pacific Ocean, the heavy fog has rolled in as it did on this day. 3/13/2007
The view at North Beach, San Clemente. 3/13/2007
Pacific Surfliner 578 climbing Miramar Hill. 3/13/2007
Looking back all the way to the Pacific Ocean as we continued to climb Miramar Hill. 3/13/2007
CP Cumbres. 3/13/2007
Pacific Surfliner 578 at San Diego. 3/13/2007
Two cruise ships at port in San Diego as seen from the station. 3/13/2007
Torrey Pine trees as seen from Pacific Surfliner 589. 3/13/2007
The fog pouring over the bluffs at the Torrey Pines State Reserve. 3/13/2007
Where "The Surf Meets The Turf" at Del Mar as we passed along the bluffs. 3/13/2007
A BNSF freight train in the siding at CP Bake from Metrolink 604. 3/14/2007
Pacific Surfliner 589 at Oceanside. 3/14/2007
Driving down Orange Street in Santa Ana on the way to the train. 3/16/2007
Pacific Surfliner 578 leaving San Clemente. 3/16/2007
The Santa Fe Railroad San Clemente sign. 3/16/2007
Metrolink 810 at San Clemente. 3/16/2007
Metrolink 602 at San Clemente. 3/16/2007
Pacific Surfliner 785 arriving at San Clemente. 3/16/2007
Alex Kummant, the President of Amtrak, at the joint Membership Meeting and Conference of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, Rail Passenger Association of California and The Transit Coalition in the MTA Board Room in Los Angeles. 3/17/2007
Mr. Kummant's jacket came off as he really got into his talk. Afterwards, I had thirty seconds with him and handed him an envelope with my Million Mile trip plan and asked him to attend if he could. He said he did not know if he could make, it but would like to try. 3/17/2007
The Los Angeles Subway Yard from Pacific Surfliner 774. 3/17/2007
The cars from the Angels Flight Incline railway stored at the subway shops. 3/17/2007
Amtrak locomotives at the Los Angeles Shops. 3/17/2007
The turntable with the Amtrak low-polluting switcher. 3/17/2007
Anaheim Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. 3/17/2007
The Honda Center, formerly The Pond of Anaheim, where the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim play. I have used the Amtrak Anaheim station for events at both of these arenas, as well as the Grove Theater of Anaheim. 3/17/2007
Surfing contests are held every so often along the Surfliner Route. 3/17/2007
Church on the Beach takes place every Sunday at North Beach San Clemente, as seen from Pacific Surfliner 564 3/18/2007.
The steam power plant south of Carlsbad as viewed from Pacific Surfliner 571. 3/18/2007
Nice homes across Buena Vista Lagoon. 3/18/2007
Me relaxing along the Pacific Shore. 3/18/2007
Santiago Creek between Santa Ana and Orange. 3/18/2007
Tonapah and Tidewater caboose 402 built by Seattle Car Manufacturing Company (predecessor of today's Paccar) in 1908. It served for many years on the Tonopah and Tidewater line from the Santa Fe railroad connection in the southern California desert to the Rhyolite and Goldfield mining regions. As traffic declined and the T&T moved toward dissolution, the caboose was sold to the nearby Tonopah & Goldfield, where it also carried the number 402. With the end of the T&G after the second world war, the caboose was purchased by a Hollywood studio for use in the movies. It wass old to Short Line Enterprises in the early 1970's and was acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 1988.
It was here in in Orange under restoration. 3/18/2007
The Santa Ana River, once the worst flood threat west of the Mississippi River. 3/18/2007
The Big A in the parking lot of Anaheim Stadium. 3/18/2007
Chris Parker and Michael Le Babbister of Montreal, Quebec on Pacific Surfliner 774. 3/18/2007
The private car "Tioga Pass" in San Diego. 3/18/2007
A rear marker lantern on "Tioga Pass". 3/18/2007
An interesting juxtaposition "Tioga Pass" and the Santa Fe station. 3/18/2007
Very interesting sky at the San Mateo Creek. Surfliner 785 3/18/2007
The reef with the sea lions off San Clemente. 3/18/2007
San Clemente Pier. 3/18/2007
The American Flag on the washed-up tree trunk at Capistrano Shores. 3/18/2007
Dana Point. 3/18/2007
Pacific Surfliner 785 met Pacific Surfliner 582 at CP Capistrano. 3/18/2007
Flowers at the Solana Beach station. 3/19/2007
San Mateo Creek from Pacific Surfliner 785. 3/19/2007
Pacific Surfliner 785 leaving Santa Ana. 3/19/2007
