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| Title: |
A November Morning Out on the High Iron |
| Description: |
A late running Metrolink Train #600 from Los Angeles approaches the train station in Fullerton California for a brief stop before heading South at Fullerton Junction towards Oceanside. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/2009 Upload Date: 11/10/2009 11:25:56 PM |
| Location: |
Fullerton, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SCAX 856(F59PH) |
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403 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Box |
| Description: |
A discarded box lies on the platform near track 10A at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The box, like so many souls living on the streets around the station in cardboard lean-tos, or sitting on park benches by day and huddling in the dark, fetid alleys by night, once had a direction and a purpose. Perhaps the contents of the box was even once appreciated by someone with the same feeling of euphoria that a bottle of Night Train shared among traveling companions can bring, or the warm contentment that a few hits off the glass pipe might provide - even if it be only temporary. One never knows what transpires in the minds of the forsaken. On one hand, the box's receipt might also have not been such a joyous event. It could have been accompanied by the crushing disappointment that results from the realization that most, if not all of one's failures in life are generally attributable to a lack of direction, self-esteem and/or the horror of a bad acid trip. And all of the street urchins leaning against the adjacent walls and pillars, surveying the open spaces like a pride of lions on some distant Savanna. Occasionally, they look down in earnest to dig the ends of smoked cigarettes out of the ashtrays to scavenge the bits of unburned tobacco for use in their hand rolled joes. In contrast, the box presumably has fulfilled it's "use" in this life and is now just sitting around, passing the time and waiting, waiting for what might be next. It and the urchins have been cast off and abandon, left to find their fates and final dispositions by the vicissitudes of the wind blown from the passing trains. As I watch, the box upon the pavement and the urchins upon the walls meld into the light and the cacophony that is the City by day, I am left to ponder the ultimate question that begs to be asked. Where will the urchins and box will ultimately end up at the journeys end, and how shall they get there? As for the box, only God and the janitor really know for sure. And the urchins? I can only hope they all get home eventually. Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT) (February 23, 2010) |
| Photo Date: |
2/23/2010 Upload Date: 2/25/2010 2:27:44 AM |
| Location: |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SCAX 861(F59PH) |
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521 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Metrolinks New Tampon Paint Scheme |
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The recently painted Metrolink EMD F59PH #864 is wearing what trackside observers have dubbed as Metrolinks "Tampon" paint scheme. The Red, White and Blue car is a leased car Utah Front Runner car from the SLC Utah. Here Metrolink Train #687 makes a Southerly approach to Fullerton Junction from the grade crossing at Orangethorpe Avenue. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2010 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 1:51:15 PM |
| Location: |
Fullerton, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SCAX 864(F59PH) |
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474 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushin Into the Twilight |
| Description: |
Metrolink Engine #867 pushes Train 701 out of the station at Fullerton California en-route to Los Angeles on an Autumn evening. |
| Photo Date: |
10/2/2009 Upload Date: 10/11/2009 4:15:18 AM |
| Location: |
Fullerton, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SCAX 867(F59PH) |
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275 Comments: 0 |
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