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[GG-1]

Aloha All

Here is a link to my Fest Still Pictures

Hope you enjoy
Eric

[WhoozOn1st]

SoCal pics & vids...

Picasa:

OTOL SoCal RailFest '09

YouTube:

Metrolink 402 Running To Riverside Downtown

BNSF Intermodal Eastbound At Riverside Downtown

BNSF Intermodal Westbound At Riverside Downtown

Pacific Surfliner 768 Departs Oceanside

Sprinter Departs Oceanside

Sprinter Arrives Oceanside

Sprinter Departure, Cab View

Coaster Bearing OTOL Fest Departs Oceanside

My Post-Fest:

Pacific Surfliner 578 Arrives Oceanside

Dome Sweet Dome 1: Surfliner 583 Arrives OSD, 7-21-09

Dome Sweet Dome 2: Surfliner 583 Departs OSD, 7-21-09

[KevinKorell]

Enjoyed them so far, Eric and Patrick, others keep 'em coming!

[Jack615]

Fest pictures

Jack

[chuljin]

And mine. Sorry about the last five pictures...I've always found the 105/110 interchange impressive (for a non-rail-related structure ), and that was my first (and perhaps last, considering my impending move) opportunity to see it from that point of view.

I have several videos, too, but haven't yet found time to Youtube them.

[WhoozOn1st]

And mine.

Before the Fest I was berating myself for never having done the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line and for having to miss riding it with the Fest. Seeing some of these photos (virtually certain they're that line) made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08. Now all I have left to gripe about is not doing the San Berdoo Line, and missing it with the Fest. Thanks for the pics, Chris.

[KevinKorell]

Now all I have left to gripe about is not doing the San Berdoo Line, and missing it with the Fest.

I don't know if you've ridden the Sunset Limited yet, but it runs on a small part of the San Bernardino Line around El Monte.

[chuljin]

...made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08....

Yes, the routing of the Tehachapi detour brings back fond memories of my first interaction with a certain non-OTOLler who joined us. I found out how and when it's announced, and most other minutiae besides the answer to my thrice-asked question 'what route does it take?' I eventually gave up and discovered independently that yes, it goes all the way out to almost Colton, then turns north and goes through the Cajon pass to join Metrolink just south of Palmdale and run alongside it (AFAIK two single-tracks sharing ballast and looking like double track, but different owners) for about 9 miles before Metrolink ends at their Lancaster miniyard and UP continues on to Tehachapi, Bakersfield and Sacramento (whence its normal route).

This post has been edited by chuljin: Jul 29 2009, 03:24 PM

[jis]

Here is the first set from me. There will be several others....

[jis]

And mine.

Before the Fest I was berating myself for never having done the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line and for having to miss riding it with the Fest. Seeing some of these photos (virtually certain they're that line) made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08.

True. But that is just the flat portion from Palmdale to Lancaster, assuming of course that the detour followed UP up Cajon Pass and then along the Palmdale Cutoff. The best part of the Antelope Valley Line however is through Soledad Canyon (between Palmdale and Santa Clarita), which you missed. So you might still want to travel the Antelope Valley line, albeit, you could turn back at Palmdale and not go all the way to Lancaster.