Pacific Surfliner
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The Pacific Surfliner is a 350-mile passenger train service serving the communities on the coast of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo. The Pacific Surfliner is Amtrak's third-b
The San Diegan at Oceanside in 1985
Coach/baggage/cab car #6908 on the Pacific Surfliner on the Gaviota Coast in 2018
A Pacific Surfliner Siemens Charger locomotive at L.A. Union Station in 2022.
Lower-level seating on a "Pacific Business Class" car in 2012
San Diegan (train)
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The San Diegan was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and a “workhorse” of the railroad. Its 126-mile route ran from Los Angeles, California, south to San
Pacific Surfliner
…to San Diego to develop better connections, close gaps in the schedule, and optimize the assets of the railroad. The route is the successor of the San Diegan, a Los Angeles–San Diego service operated since 1938 by the Santa Fe Railway. It had been one of the Santa Fe's premier routes until Amtrak took over…
The southbound San Diegan passes through Capistrano Beach, California in April 1973
Santa Fe San Diegan at the San Diego depot (1945 postcard)
ATSF EMD F7 in classic Warbonnet livery, leading the San Diegan, heading South near Miramar, California 1973
An EMD F40PH leads a San Diegan into Union Station in Los Angeles in 1978.