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Up early I prepared the things that I would be taking to Fullerton Railroad Days 2006.
I drove down to the Santa Ana Train station and parked in the north parking lot. I walked straight to the southeast end of the top level of the parking structure to provide you this current view of the bridge and platform construction at Santa Ana. After that, I walked to the northern end of the platform to wait for Surfliner 763 to take me to Fullerton Railroad Days 2006.
Surfliner 763 pulled into Santa Ana and I boarded the lower level of the cab car for the trip to Fullerton. We went to Anaheim but at Fullerton Jct had to wait for a BNSF piggyback train with plenty of UPS trailers aboard and then the Metrolink Display Train to enter the siding at Fullerton. I stepped off and went straight up the stairs for a pair of pictures.
Fullerton Railroads Days is held in the northeast parking lot and out on Santa Fe Avenue.
This view shows the Metrolink Train, the BNSF ES44DC 7738 along with private cars Boston & Maine Salisbury Beach 800257, Western Limited RDCX 2001 and CB&Q Dome Silver Splendor and along with Coast Rail Caboose 1002.
Barry Cheristensen and myself working the Orange County Railroad Historical Society Table. Once we had set everything up, I took a walk around the grounds to see what I could find.
Daylight Sales who has sold me many a Railroad T-shirt over the years.
Disneyland's E.P. Ripley - Engine No. 2 which was named after Edward Payson Ripley (1845 - 1920) who was the first President of the reorganized Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in 1895. This was the star attraction of Fullerton Railroad Days 2006.
Steve Grande and Ray Burns owners of Trainweb.com and Trainparty.com who are also two of my dearest friends.
Fullerton Railroad Plaza Booth.
One of the HO Model Railroads where ex Amtrak Conductor Andy Jackson was running this long California Zephyr.
The Pacific Railroad Society Booth who gave me a year membership after I was the
Guest Speaker back in December at their Holiday Annual Meeting. I went back to the
Orange County Railway Historical Society Booth and worked it until about 11:25 AM.
Here I would hand out our group's newsletter and sign up sheets. My speech was:
"We meet the first Monday Night of the month except if that is a national holiday
when we meet on the second Monday Night on the 4th Floor of the santa Ana Train Station
at 7:30 PM, take the
elevator up!" I enjoyed Coca-Cola and later a Tri tip Sandwich. Cliff Prather and
Roy Wojohn joined Barry and I as did Jim Novell. Chris Parker showed up and let me use
his phone to call Lets Talk Trains, the Internet Radio Show, at letstalktrains.us.
You can hear the show live Saturday morning from 10 AM to Noon PDT or 24/7 in the achieves.
Chris decided he would like to take a train ride because he knew I would be going on
Surfliner 572 this morning. I met Melissa, a reader of my web site who finally got to met
me in person. At 11:30 AM Chris, Melissa and I walked over to Track 2 to wait for 572.
Surfliner 572 arriving in Fullerton to take Chris Parker and I on an escape from Fullerton Railroad Days for over three hours. The train left Fullerton late and made our way south through Anaheim, Santa Ana and Irvine. Bridge replacement at MP 188 had slowed all trains on this day. We passed 571 just before Irvine and met 775 at CP Los Flores. Just before Oceanside I used Chris' phone to call Julie at Amtrak to see how 577 was doing. With no report, I checked what time 768 got to San Diego and that was at 12:53 PM. That meant we could get to Solana Beach on 572 with no problems. We detrained there, went upstairs, visited the Coca-Cola Machine then learned how 577 was doing before we crossed the bridge and went down to Track 2 to wait.
Surfliner 577 arriving into Solana Beach which would take us back to Fullerton. We met 774 at San Onofre and later 578 just before Irvine. This returned us to Fullerton about half an hour late. I went back to the Orange County Railway Historical Society with Melissa who spent some more time with me. About 4:30 PM we walked back to Track 2 to wait for Surfliner 572.
The wonderful Melissa, a reader of my web site, who came to Fullerton Railroad Days to meet me.
Surfliner 582 came into Fullerton to return me home to Santa Ana.
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