Above is an image of one of the first Amtrak Pacific Surfliner cars to be
delivered to Los Angeles as captured by
TrainWeb RAILcam #1.
The very first Amtrak Surfliner Car arrived Sunday morning, February 6, 2000,
deadheaded on the westbound Amtrak Southwest Chief, Train #3.
The car in the above RAILcam image arrived early Tuesday afternoon on a late westbound
Amtrak Southwest Chief.
A complete Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trainset heading south stopped at the Amtrak
Station at the Fullerton Santa Fe Depot at about 9:45 A.M. on Wednesday morning,
May 10, 2000. The trainset stopped again in Fullerton at about 4:10 P.M. on its
return trip from San Diego to Los Angeles.
Apparantly, it was doing a test run on the Amtrak San Diegan route between
Los Angeles and San Diego. An announcement by the Amtrak station staff indicated
that passengers were not to board this train.
We took a number of photos of the train when it stopped in Fullerton both on its southbound
and on its northbound journeys. The westbound Amtrak Southwest Chief arrived at the same time
as the southbound Pacific Surfliner this morning and you can see that in the photos that we
took of the train.
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to view those photos now!
UPDATES:
Click on either photo above for more. CLICK HERE for Carl Morrison's Story & Photos: Five Year Anniversary (June 2005).
CLICK HERE for Amtrak News Release: Celebrating Ten Easy Going Years (June 3, 2010).
CLICK HERE for the Amtrak California Press Release
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