With 54 miles to go, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner 579 is departing Laguna Niguel, California, on the 128 mile run from San Diego to Los Angeles. Following a serious mishap the following year, locomotives would be operated exclusively on the "out bound" end of push pull consists.

Photographed by Ken Patton, September, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Ken Patton, December 4, 2020.
Railroad: BNSF.

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