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I woke up at 5:30 AM as the train was running along the Salton Sea in the dark and after getting dressed, I proceeded to the lounge car to wait for breakfast to be served. As we neared Thermal at 6:00 AM, I went into the dining car finding out that there was no French Toast or Bob Evans Breakfast aboard this train. I can't eat eggs so I had to settle for a modified Continental Breakfast of a bowl of Rice Krispy cereal, sausage patties and a croissant. After breakfast it was back to my car to be ready for a fresh air stop at Palm Springs.
Approaching our Palm Springs Station stop.
Wind Mills to the south of the Palm Springs Station.
Views taken during the fresh air break at Palm Springs.
Eastbound UP freight passing through Palm Springs.
Leaving Palm Springs.
Passing through the Wind Mill Fields.
Sunrise below Cabazon.
Coming into Cabazon.
We passed this UP westbound just as we went through Banning.
The Sunset Limited then descended through San Timiteo Canyon.
We returned to a really clear morning as we passed through San Timiteo Canyon.
The San Gabriel Mountain through the morning haze.
It got clearer as we dropped into the San Bernardino Valley.
The Arrowhead on the San Bernardino Mountains.
Crossing the Santa Ana River and Lyle Creek after we had passed under Interstate 215.
Another UP westbound at Colton.
The former Southern Pacific Colton Station.
The BNSF Crossing at Colton.
The Relco switcher just east of West Colton Yard.
The departure track at the east end of West Colton Yard.
The bowl at West Colton Yard with some tank cars having been crested.
The Crest and Yard Tower at West Colton Yard.
A line of cars waiting to be crested at West Colton Yard.
We proceeded to Ontario and after we did our station work, we departed this station.
We left Pomona on time and headed west towards our final stop at los Angeles Union Station.
As the crew was celebrating an early arrival into Los Angeles Union Station, we came to Basset where we got stopped by red signals. A UP eastbound was blocking our path to the west and there is a crossover to the Metrolink line we could take into LAUPT. The Sunset Limited was stopped at 8:47 AM by a red signal at Basset.
First Metrolink 317 came by heading to LAUPT from San Bernardino at 9:12 AM. We continued to sit and wait with everyone wondering why?
At 9:37 AM Metrolink 302 came from LAUPT headed towards San Bernardino.
At 9:43 AM the Sunset Limited finally started moving west once more.
We crossed over from the Sunset Route to the Metrolink San Bernardino Line.
As we climbed over the San Gabriel Flyover we passed that UP freight that was blocking our path.
We crossed over that UP freight below.
The end of that eastbound UP freight.
Shoo flying around a bridge under construction in El Monte.
Curving away from the Sunset Route heading towards the middle of Interstate 10.
High in the air along the Rio Honda.
What a beautiful morning as we head towards the middle of the San Bernardino Freeway.
The Bus Express Lanes join our route.
We curved through a tunnel to reach the middle of the freeway.
Racing down the freeway at 60 MPH.
Another Bus Express Lane enters and exits the freeway.
The siding in the middle of the freeway.
Traffic slowed but we didn't!
We curved off of the middle of the freeway but ran along the Busways by the Cal State Los Angeles Station.
We curved through the hills running along the north side of the San Bernardino Freeway.
We reached Yuma Jct along the Los Angeles River.
The Sunset Limited had just crossed the Los Angeles River.
Coming in we passed by the south side of Mission Tower. The Sunset Limited then arrived into Los Angeles Union Passenger Station at 10:18 AM or twelve minutes early. I detrained but still had one more thing to do with this train.
I took a paper towel and in large letters wrote "Wash Me!" on the direst car I had ever ridden.
An early Sunset Limited and a slightly tardy Southwest Chief. I walked around to Track 9 to wait for Surfliner 572 to board.
Surfliner 572 1/3/07
This train had engine 463, Pacific Business Class 6807, Coach/Cafe 6306, Coaches 6412 and 6400 with Cab Car 6905. We loaded at 11:00 AM and departed on time at 11:10 AM. We stopped at Fullerton, Anaheim before we arrived we arrived into Santa Ana ending another fantastic Amtrak adventure and a great trip to Texas.
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