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  1. Dogs Dig Trains Too

    Dogs Dig Trains Too

    My Railfaning companion watches intently as the Eastbound Southwest Chief arrives at the station in Fullerton. Once the train is loaded and it starts to pull away, that is the signal to my K9 companion to bark loudly and then brake into a run in a futile attempt to run down the train. So far she...
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    • Category: Human Interest Photos
  2. Sunset Meet at Highland

    Sunset Meet at Highland

    A pair of stack trains pass each other as a Metrolink commuter train pulls around the bend in the distance towards WBCS Basta.
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    • Category: Sunrise, Sunset and Glint Photos
  3. Building America One Mile at a Time [Friday the 13th Series]

    Building America One Mile at a Time [Friday the 13th Series]

    A pair of yellow jackets push a stack train up the Cajon Pass on a late Summer afternoon.
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    • Category: Union Pacific
  4. Crossing 3N45 [Friday the 13th Series]

    Crossing 3N45 [Friday the 13th Series]

    With the signal at C.P. Silverwood on the former Southern Pacific's Palmdale Cut Off in the background, a pair of BNSF GE Dash-9's bring up the rear of an Eastbound double stack on BNSF's Cajon Subdivision in the Cajon Pass.
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  5. Full Frontal GEVO [Friday the 13th Series]

    Full Frontal GEVO [Friday the 13th Series]

    BNSF 7735 rounds the corner on Main #3 near Hill 582 as it leads a Westbound double stack down the pass towards the Los Angeles basin.
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  6. At the End of the Day

    At the End of the Day

    A Metrolink commuter train leaves the platform at Fullerton California en-route to Los Angeles on a late Summer day.
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    • Category: Sunrise, Sunset and Glint Photos
  7. The Silver Streak

    The Silver Streak

    More fun with trains, signals and long exposures. Here a Metrolink train headed from Los Angeles to Oceanside leaves the station at Fullerton California and passes by the signals at Fullerton Junction. (March 4, 2010)
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  8. Loading Bags

    Loading Bags

    An Amtrak baggage specialist loads bags on the Eastbound Southwest Chief as it makes the station stop at Fullerton, California. (March 4, 2010)
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  9. Gerald Watches a Train

    Gerald Watches a Train

    Gerald is one of the hard core Fullerton railfans that have been featured in some of my other photos in the past. Here, Gerald spends part of a Thursday evening watching an Eastbound BNSF stack train fly through the station at Fullerton California with some piggybacks tagged on at the end...
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    • Category: Night Photos
  10. Meet at Pine Lodge

    Meet at Pine Lodge

    There are really only two ways to photograph operating trains that you are not riding on. In the first instance you pick a good spot and wait for a train to come. In the alternative and clearly more fun method, you chase the train in your trusty railfanning vehicle and meet it at a number of...
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    • Category: Western United States
  11. Into the Afternoon

    Into the Afternoon

    BNSF # 7717 leads a stack train on late afternoon climb up the Cajon Pass from the L.A. basin enroute to Barstow and points East. Here the train passes over Cajon Creek after passing through EBCS Cajon, and making the turn at the Cajon Boulevard grade crossing. Near Cajon Station on BNSF Cajon...
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    • Category: Western United States
  12. BNSF EMD Power Out West

    BNSF EMD Power Out West

    BNSF # 9311 leads a stack train on late afternoon decent down the Cajon Pass from Barstow. We don't see many BNSF SD70ACe's out here in the Los Angeles basin. They are very common on U.P. rails, but not BNSF.
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    • Category: Western United States
  13. PV Pacific Sands at San Diego

    PV Pacific Sands at San Diego

    Pacific Sands was delivered to the Union Pacific Railroad Company in April of 1950, and built by the Budd Car Company for Pullman as a 10/6 sleeper. In the 1960's when Pullman was dissolved, control of the car was taken over by Union Pacific. Amtrak took over the car from U.P. during the 1970's...
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    • Category: Special Trains, Charters and PV's
  14. Gazing Westward

    Gazing Westward

    The assistant Conductor on the Eastbound Southwest Chief looks to the West on a cool Spring evening while standing by the door of the rear most chair car, waiting for passengers to board the train at Fullerton, California.
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  15. Red Sky out West

    Red Sky out West

    The final rays of the sun setting in the West back light an Eastbound stack train approaching the train station in Fullerton California on a warm evening in April.
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