Late Afternoon Trains in Fullerton, CA, Featuring Pacific Surfliner with Observation Car, 10-8-2018
Railfanning at Fullerton. It was a crowded and chaotic experience. Also, before you ask, the area on the east side of the platform was under construction at the time so I had to take the shot through the fence.
Train 1: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner arrives in Fullerton with a rare observation lounge and F59PHI 451 leading, (0:22). Locomotives: AMTK 451 (Unit sold to Metra in 2019 and now serves as METX 74) AMTK 6907 "Point Mugu" (Cab car)
Train 3: Metrolink cab car 667 pulls up, (2:11). Locomotives: SCAX 667 SCAX 856 (Unit was placed in storage in 2020, then appeared to have been used as a backup/rescue engine for MoW trains, as of now to my knowledge it is used as a backup engine and is one of three F59PHs to fulfill that role as of 2023)
Both trains leaving, (2:59).
Train 4: Amtrak Cab Car 6953 leads its Surfliner in, (3:29). Locomotives: AMTK 6953 (Cab car) AMTK 452 (Unit sold to Metra in 2019 and now serves as METX 75)
Train leaves: (3:57).
Train 5: Metrolink F59PHI arrives, (4:37). Locomotives: SCAX 879 (Unit has since been retired and placed in storage as of 2020) SCAX 679 (Cab car)
Train leaving: (5:00).
Train 6: BNSF 7722 and 3756 run light heading east, (5:31). Locomotives: BNSF 7722 BNSF 3756
Train 7: BNSF 7106 and NS SD60E 7028 lead an intermodal baretables, (5:51). Locomotives: BNSF 7106 NS 7028
Train 8: Metrolink pulls into the station, (8:20). Locomotives: SCAX 6?? SCAX ???
Train 9: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner arrives and meets the aforementioned Metrolink, (8:31). Locomotives: AMTK 453 (Unit sold to Metra in 2019 and now serves as METX 76) AMTK 6905 "Point San Luis" (Cab car)
Original description from 2018: A few trains from my California vacation that I caught after Oceanside in Fullerton, including an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner with an observation/lounge car and 2 BNSF freights with some Norfolk Southern power.
In my opinion, Fullerton is kind of overrated. Too many people who get in your video and talk loudly with no care of you filming, that green fence in the middle of the tracks blocks the bottom half of the trains on the other side (Notable with the baretables train), and, at the time I filmed this, I had to shoot from the south side as the sun was going to cause severe glares in the video. In my opinion, San Bernardino is a better place to railfan. Less people, just as many BNSF freights, and the mid-track fence only blocking out part of the Metrolink trains.
As of late 2020 the southern end of this bridge was rebuilt following a derailment.
That GP15-1 was honestly more cool and exciting than the lead unit now that I look at it, especially in Phoenix.
Locomotives:
UP 1989
UP 6655
UP 9040
UP 7774
UPY 606
UP 1377
Original description from 2019:
Four down, two to go! I caught the Rio Grande unit on point heading over Tempe. UP 1989, UP 6655, UP 9040, UP 7774, UPY 606, and UP 1377 (Which has been repainted for some reason) lead a Manifest over Tempe Town Lake and race a light rail. What a nice way to come back from nearly two weeks of absence! This will be the first time I use the Premiere feature on YouTube.
Also, sorry for when that guy talked, we told him not to and yet he still did...
Original description from 2020:
I went to DGNO Mockingbird Yard to catch DGNO, ended up catching no DGNO. At least I caught the TRE trains (and one Texas Eagle). Videos shot July 23rd and 24th.
Train 1: TRE cabcar 1003 leads eastbound, (0:17).
Train 2: TRE 123 heads westbound, (0:42).
Train 3: The only train here that is not a TRE, Amtrak 11 leads Texas Eagle 21 westbound, (1:10).
Train 4: TRE cabcar 1008 heads eastbound, (1:40).
Train 5: TRE 125 heads westbound, (2:09).
Train 6: TRE cabcar 1009 heads eastbound, (2:30).
Train 7: TRE 124 heads westbound, (2:54).
Train 8: TRE cabcar 1008 heads eastbound, (3:21).
Train 9: TRE 123 heads westbound, (3:38).
Train 10: TRE cabcar 1007 heads eastbound, (4:05).
Train 11: TRE 124 heads westbound, (4:27).
*BONUS CLIP* TEXrail 107 heads westbound over a bridge, (4:54).
Original description from 2018:
Another train I caught on a recent vacation. UP 7860, UP 5192, and UP 4729 lead an eastbound Intermodal through Lordsburg, New Mexico.
As of late 2019 this crossing has been taken out in favor of a new overpass (visible under construction in the background).
Train 1: UP 6021 leads an eastbound Manifest, (0:15).
Locomotives:
UP 6021
UP 7191
UP 7126
UP 6889 (DPU)
Train 2: UP 6670 leads a westbound Intermodal, (1:53).
Locomotives:
UP 6670
UP 5952
Original description from 2019:
Today I went to Maricopa and caught a manifest led by UP 6021 and an Intermodal led by UP (thankfully not NS) 6670.
2 Cascade Greens switching, plus a bonus Hi-Rail truck.
Locomotives:
BNSF 2890
BNSF 2723 (Unit repainted in 2020)
Original description from 2019:
A train I caught shunting in Peoria. Two cascade green Geeps, BNSF 2890 and BNSF 2723 switching a local train.
Note to self: Don't shoot on narrow mode, it makes the image all grainy. Also tighten your tripod next time.
Locomotives:
NS 9128 (Unit has been rebuilt into an AC44C6M and renumbered NS 4291 as of 2019)
NS 3614
Original description from 2018:
A train with no UP units, only NS, in a small town about 30 miles east of El Paso called Fabens.
P.S. If this is my first video you have seen, I do not live in Texas. I live on the UP in Phoenix. Thanks for watching.
As of 2019 this crossing has been taken out in favor of a new overpass (visible under construction in the background).
Train 1: UP 8636 leads an eastbound stack, (0:15).
Locomotives:
UP 8636
UP 6197
UP 7286
Train 2: UP 8063 leads an eastbound Intermodal, (1:56).
Locomotives:
UP 8063
UP 2596
UP 8593
UP 5580
Train 3: UP 8221 leads an eastbound Manifest, (3:05).
Locomotives:
UP 8221
UP 5207
UP 6464
UP 2722 (DPU)
Train 4: UP SD70M leads an eastbound Intermodal, (5:22).
Locomotives:
UP 40??
UP 2???
Original description from 2019:
I went to Maricopa to try and catch the 4141 and 1943, but they were still in Tucson at the time, it was getting dark, and I have school tomorrow, so I decided to call it a day. I did manage to catch 4 trains: 3 Intermodals and a Manifest, though.
In 2021, a new signal was installed at this location.
Back when I had just learned what an SD70ACe-T4 was and they were still really rare on UP I was overjoyed to catch two of them within the same day. I apparently still did not know what an SD70M-2 or C40-8W were, though.
Train 1: UP 5947 leads an eastbound Intermodal with a new SD70ACe-T4, (0:22).
Locomotives:
UP 5947
UP 3080
Train 2: UP SD70ACe-T4 3046 leads a westbound Grain, (3:34).
Locomotives:
UP 3046
UP 8634
UP 3880 (DPU)
UP 6491 (DPU)
Train 3: UP 7866 leads a westbound Intermodal through the crossing, (6:28).
Locomotives:
UP 7866
UP 8516
UP 9050
Train 4: UP 6411 leads a westbound Intermodal, (9:26).
Locomotives:
UP 6411
UP 5640
Train 5: UP 5889 leads a westbound Manifest past, (13:14).
Locomotives:
UP 5889
UP 5039
UP 5392 (DPU)
UP 6726 (DPU)
Train 6: UP 4133 leads a westbound Intermodal, (15:38).
Locomotives:
UP 4133
UP 8058
UP 6305
NS 2658 (Unit sold to PRLX in 2021)
NS 9062 (Unit rebuilt into AC44C6M 4238 as of 2020)
Train 7: UP 5937 leads an eastbound Manifest, (18:23).
Locomotives:
UP 5937
UP 5167
UP 3911
Train 8: UP 9028 leads a westbound Manifest with an ex-Conrail/LMS C40-8W working as a DPU (How did I not know I had caught this until now?), (21:39).
Locomotives:
UP 9028
UP 7983
NS 8465 (DPU) (Unit sold to PRLX in 2020)
NS 7681 (DPU)
Original description from 2018:
Trains I caught on my recent trip to Benson, featuring 2 Tier-4 SD70ACe locomotives (I honestly do not know how I managed to catch them back-to-back) and four Norfolk Southern units.
Locomotives:
UP 1394
Original description from 2019:
A compilation of Union Pacific 1394 on the Kyrene Local. Shot on 11-7-2019.
Catch 1: UP 1394 leads the Kyrene Local long-hood-forward at the crossing on Ray Rd. (0:17)
Catch 2: UP 1394 leads the Kyrene Local long-hood-forward going under the 202 at 56th St. The train gives me a horn salute that kind of sounds like a Shave and a Haircut. (1:22)
Catch 3: UP 1394 heads back up with its train at 56th St. It's kind of far away, but if you look closely you can see the engineer hold a water bottle out the window. The train stops for me while I run over there and catch it. (2:50)