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San Diego's Valley Fire: Homes burned overnight Sunday as the Valley Fire raged through the East County, burning thousands of acres and prompting a state of emergency declaration.
This Wood Duck thought I must have something for him and as he approached he gave me a cool straight on view with reflection.
Yeah all two of them, with a steady glow of light pollution from and neighboring warehouses and factories as well as the largest offender BNSF's A and B yards further up the road. BNSF 3750 sits quietly waiting for a crew to take it west out of Rana.
No exercise required.
Union Pacific's LOA32 "Anaheim Local" strolls through Santa Ana Street as it crosses the southern part of Downtown Anaheim as the train heads for it's first customer at International Paper (Their spot cars are the Boxcars on the rear) before heading south for Costa Mesa.
This scene was shot from the Meditation Gardens on the grounds of the Self Realization Fellowship, Encinitas, CA.
It's a lot warmer than home and the hummingbirds are out enjoying the sun but probably cursing the wind.
Coaster is a commuter rail service, it stands for Coast Express Railway, in that case the American west coast is mentioned, a pretty short line between Oceanside and San Diego, trains run pretty often, sometimes 1 train per hour in each direction, sometimes 3 trains per direction. This spot is right after Carlsbad Poinsettia station where Coasters do their stop. Earlier you could have seen F40’s but the NCTD wanted to do a upgrade and have bought the Siemens-built Siemens Chargers which are modern, efficient and better how they’ve thought but if you know what right now happens with the Pacific Surfliner SC-44’s ypu will understand that they aren’t that good.
The San Gabriel Mountain engulf the background, as Kansas City Southern 4189 and BNSF 5286 rear up a Long Fenix Marine bound CMA-CGM stack train through Blue Cut. As it drops downhill through Swarthout Canyon in Cajon Pass, the train was the second of two CMA-CGM trains to descend Cajon Pass in the morning however the power was slightly more interesting.
Blasting off from their last customer of the day, UP’s LOE37 crew gets rolling back towards home base at El Centro. Since this photo was taken, 1413 has emerged from North Little Rock with a fresh coat of Armour Yellow, officially rendering Southern Pacific-painted GP40-2s an extinct species, with the famous scarlet and grey scheme now only donned by a handful of GP60s and AC4400CWs. Imperial, CA, 3/13/2025.