3/13/2007 -- San Diego Creek just east of the Tustin Metrolink station from 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.
3/14/2007 -- A BNSF freight train in the siding at CP Bake from Metrolink 604.
3/14/20007 -- Pacific Surfliner 589 at Oceanside.
3/16/2007 -- 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
3/16/2007 -- Pacific Surfliner 785 arriving at San Clemente.
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.
3/18/2007 -- 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 -- The author relaxing along the Pacific Shore.
3/18/1997 -- Santiago Creek between Santa Ana and Orange.
3/18/2007 -- In Orange under restoration was 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 was sold to Short Line Enterprises in the early 1970's and was acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 1988.
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.
3/18/1997 -- My friend Chris Parker and railfan 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 - A very interesting sky at San Mateo Creek as seen from Pacific 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.
3/19/2007 -- 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.
