SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL RAIL AUTHORITY (SCAX) 800 - EMD F40PH

Metrolink's Lone Ex Amtrak F40 800 rests in Keller Yard visible again after being buried in the F59 Deadline for awhile awaits its fate likely being held for Preservation

Metrolink's Lone F40PH 800 Makes a Station Stop in Fullerton Before Continuing South To Irvine and then Back again

SCAX 800 Originally Ex Amtrak F40 396 sits stored for the Weekend in San Berdoo with other Metrolink Trains

With Metrolink 858s Train Broken Down on Track 1 Metrolinks lone F40PH 800 passes by on Track 2 where it will pass the junction wait around the bend for a Northbound Amtrak to arrive on Track 3 (which I happened to be taking which meant I missed the Coupling up operation on Track 1) and then back up close behind Amtrak and couple onto the Disabled Metrolink Train and push it back to Los Angeles close behind Amtrak

In the Late Afternoon Metrolink 800 Makes a Station Stop in Fullerton Before Heaeding South

Metrolink F40PH 800 Sits Tied Down and Stored for the Weekend at San Berdoo Just Before a Heavy Down pour

Metrolink F40PH #800 sits in Metrolinks Keller Yard waiting to take the next in line F125 to Taylor Yard to be readied and put into service.

The body still remains although it can no longer run.

SCAX #800 with white safety stsipe F125's. #928 & #931 off to left.

We finally got our chance to see this engine without its' white tarp.

This could be the end...

While driving up to Fullerton for some railfanning we spotted Metrolink's only F40PH 800 on a tied down rail train the track on the right in the background is the mainline

Came on M317 from San Bernardino Downtown to LAUPT.

Shoving M317 west to LAUPT

Looks like the 800 is being used for filming purposes this round. SCAX 899 on the other end.

Looks like the 800 is being used for filming purposes this round. SCAX 899 on the other end.

Looks like the 800 is being used for filming purposes this round. SCAX 899 on the other end.

Looks like the 800 is being used for filming purposes this round. SCAX 899 on the other end.

Metrolink yard north of Union Station.

Here's a shot that's definitely worth putting on the archives. Metrolink's one and only F40PH SCAX 800 here is sitting at the Laguna Niguel Station with a 4 car full rotem consist.

While preparing for the next day's display, crews repositioned Metrolink F40PH 800 and F59PH 873, and that necessitated uncoupling the two locomotives. Once the angle cocks on the train lines were closed, F40PH 800 (originally Amtrak 396) backed away from the 873, the couplers released and the hoses stretched - until one pair of MU hoses, pulled as taught as possible, finally separated with a loud whoosh of air. Photographed at the moment of release, the effects of the sudden burst of air, disturbing the accumulated dirt and dust on these engines' pilots, creates a small cloud at the hoses' ends. Almost immediately, the other pairs of hoses followed suit, and the sound of all the briefly rushing air demonstrated why the crew was wearing ear plugs.

Metrolink train 683, heading from Irvine to Los Angeles, California, passes through CP Maple in Orange, California. At CP Maple, Metrolinks Olive Subdivision (the two tracks in the foreground, which head to Atwood on the BNSF Railways San Bernardino Subdivision, and then east to Riverside and San Bernardino) splits off the Orange Subdivision (which joins the BNSF San Bernardino Sub in Fullerton, and the heads to Los Angeles). Metrolinks only F40PH, number 800 (ex-Amtrak 396), leads this six-car train on New Years Eve 2015.

Metrolink's only F40PH trails on their annual Christmas train