Riding the Surfliner to Disneyland is one of the best kept secrets out there. The Anaheim Resort Transit offers free shuttle service (if you show the driver your Metrolink/Amtrak ticket) from Anaheim Station to Disneyland and back. Ever since I started taking the train to Disneyland from San Diego over a year ago, I've never driven to the parks ever again.
Me too. Sort of. Had to move away from Ojai. Old home burned in the Thomas. Underwater in 2005. Don't get me started on the mud slides. The odd earthquake. Still, best place in the world.
The weather is nearly perfect year 'round.. Not as much diversity as Utah though.. Wait 10 minutes or drive 5 miles.. and the weather changes.. and not necessarily for the better. LOL!
Thanks, Dale and Karyn, for taking us all along for the ride on your trip to San Diego. My wife and I, our 2 daughters, and my in-laws visiting from out-of-town, all went to Old Town San Diego around the same time you did. We were there on New Year's Eve. The first Amtrak train I ever rode was from Santa Ana to San Diego in the late 1970s. It was a wonderful trip, especially along the Pacific coastline. Back then, this Amtrak train was called the San Diegan. Almost 10 years earlier, I rode the original San Diegan in the other direction from Santa Ana to Los Angeles when the Santa Fe railway operated it. While you were in San Diego, you should have visited Balboa Park to see and take video of 2 other great model train sites. The first is the San Diego Model Railroad Museum with several magnificent operating indoor layouts in N, HO and O scales. The second Balboa Park site has a somewhat larger scale outdoor model railroad that real people can actually ride on. Kids love it. It looks similar to the train scale that Walt Disney originally built at his home long before Disneyland was a dream. This Balboa Park outdoor railroad is located somewhat close to the San Diego Zoo entrance. Anytime you want to find out something about trains, especially around San Diego, please feel free to ask me. I grew up in Southern California and lived between San Diego and Orange Counties most of my life. Now I live with my family just south of the border along Mexico's Pacific coast (but still close to Southern California), that is, when I'm not driving my 18-wheeler down the highway somewhere in USA. -from Tom Pilling
Near Ensenada Mexico? Was there in about 59. My Uncle took us to Ensenada by way of Canada!!!! He wanted to do the entire PCH. So, we did. At this time of year. So we could do Chinese New Year in Chinatown in San Fran. I learned so much about screwing around from him. ANYWAY, we do plan to get back. I also want to see the outdoor pipe organ at Balboa Park. Oh, and the Zoo again. Both of those. Skipping Sea World.... We MAY cross the border. A bit iffy about that. But the food is great...... PS we have the N scale convention here in Salt Lake in June. Going to mention that on Sunday.
Dale, Ensenada is still very fun place to screw around, but I actually live closer to Rosarito Beach. If you come to Mexico sometime in the future, be sure to check out the new Tren Turistico (Baja Tourist Train). It operates on the former Southern Pacific Lines/San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway tracks on the Mexican side of the border between Tijuana and Tecate, home of the famous Tecate brewery. The Baja Tourist Train doesn't run every day, but only on special dates. Hopefully, you could plan a future border crossing to correspond with one of train's excursion dates. I believe that the depot for boarding this train is right next to the main pedestrian (not car) border crossing into Tijuana from the San Diego Trolley station in San Ysidro. The depot is located just after you walk out of Mexican Customs on the Mexican side of the border. Please keep in mind that international border crossing requirements have changed in the years since you last crossed. You must now show a US Passport to enter Mexico (even only to go into a bordertown) and also to return to USA. Here's the link to the Baja Tourist Train's Spanish-only website, but a quick Google search will provide additional informational resources about it in English: trenturisticobc.com I wish I was at my home in Mexico now. But instead I'm in your neck of the woods. Today (Sunday, Feb. 18), I parked my big rig at a truck stop in Brigham City, Utah, to sit out this major winter storm that's dumping so much snow on the Wasatch Front. I'll leave here tomorrow to pick up a load in Ogden and take it down to Phoenix, Arizona. I look forward to seeing your video about the upcoming N scale convention. Sadly, my work schedule as a trucker probably won't allow me to come to Salt Lake City for this awesome convention. BTW, this is the second time to remind you that it was me (yes, little old me) who FIRST informed you last year that the 2018 National N Scale Convention would be held in Salt Lake City. I know you have many subscribers, but I wish you would remember that about me as one of your very faithful viewers. Happy rails to you! -from Tom Pilling
Be sure to check out Balboa Park next time you go to San Diego. There is a great air/space museum and also a model railroad museum with about 10 different layouts (including an amazing one of the Tehachapi Loop) of all different scales inside.
Great episode. I hope becoming Accidental Tourists in LA wasn't too much of a hassle for you guys. ;) I think I would lose my mind. Can't wait for the next episode!
Like Tony Bennett leaving his heart in San Francisco.. Better than leaving my cell phone on a trolly and having to chase it. We chalk it up to and adventure... Usually AFTER we are home. LOL! I once had a bumper sticker which read: Of All the Things I've Lost.... I Miss My Mind the Most!
Don't think for one minute out those Element windows we don't see the snow covered streets. The contrast of your Christmas antics and seeing the snow of Utah is almost funny. There are worse things than missing your stop. Hey, y'all had the ear of the conductor/coordinator. That community you saw from the window of your Surfliner is actually where we took our Rosie the Wonder Dog to, uh, well you know. (It's okay we travel with bags.) Enjoyed this to hell and back. Keep it up. Greg and Jeanne.
Seriously... Utah has really diverse weather! One minute snow.. The next.. Sunshine and green grass! All we have to do is get the right exit off from I-15... Not the I-15.. Just I-15... We can be in California...... Just-like-that! LOL!!
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!! "We jackjawed the conductor all the way to LA" You could make a song out of that. Remind me never to go on a train trip with you guys, mainly since I'd probably do the exact same thing to the conductor, and you two for that matter!!! Another great show as always.
I love all your videos, but there's something extra cool about getting a notification and seeing my favorite UA-camrs screwing around and practicing the high art in the same places I know and love so well!
You're on my home turf & yet I'm learning from your reports great research amazing😎 I guess win you live so close to something you don't know a lot of the details in the booklet cheers from Encinitas California 70 yards from the coaster & Amtrak line
COOL!!! You live in a great place. But heck, you know that. We are heading back soon. Never sure when. We will be heading south and just keep going. It's what we do.....
Yup. When I was going to school in Paris on Friday I would go down to Gare Du Nord and walk the platform until I spotted an overnight train to someplace interesting. Had a rail pass. Come the morning, get off and screw around in wherever. Grand days.
Both Dale and I are/were educators.. If your students think that you are not cool... You are probably doing your job correctly! LOL! As long as they are learning!! :D
The best part is the food, I really love Mexican food and there are so many great restaurants in Cali. I grew up in So Cal and was use to being spoiled for choice with all the great restaurants, whither it was Mexican, Chinese or whatever. Now I live in a tiny town in the middle of Idaho and there's just not a whole lot to choose from..
I, too, LOVE Mexican food! My only requirement is... It has to be authentic! Being immersed in the culture for most of my life, I can really tell a difference! The prep time is measurable! But... YUMMY at the family gathering. The only thing I would change, if I could, would be Tamales.... There should be a rule.. It should take as long to eat them, as it does to make them!! LOL!
Yeah right accidental missed your stop yeah right you just wanted to be on the train even longer and I do not blame you another great adventure thank you for sharing
LOL! She was actually cool with it. I just sent her a text message to "keep the porch light a burnin'.... We were going to be late returning! When I told her what happened... She about died laughing! She was just happy that she didn't have to post bail or something! LOL!!
When you mentioned how it was sad that the oldest building in San Diago was built in the 1830s I chuckled to myself. The oldest building on my continent dates from 1793 (unless you count Captain Cook's cottage which was relocated here or a ramshackle fort wall made by shipwrecked mutineers in the 1600s)
If you’re ever in San Diego again there is a train layout in old town and there is the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park. Hopefully you do a video on that sometime in the future.
I am ever so sorry about your loss. My Dad was aboard an LST, and he was home here in Salt Lake on leave. Due to weather, he ended up missing Ships Movement, and was reassigned to Pearl for the duration. He found out later that his ship took a Kamikaze hit on the bridge. My Dads battle station had been the bridge. He didn't talk about that part of his service very often. And Yes, the Army (including the Air Corp), Marines and Navy Guys and Gals not only got the job done, they did it WELL! Thankfully, they had the backing from the people here, they worked and served well too. Bless them all. Quotes like "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy", "I Shall Return", "Nuts" and "These proceedings are closed." are very meaningful to me, which is why I made my reply.
Yes. When I see people putting on camo and strutting with their AR15 I'm never sure if I want to laugh or cry. They have no clue what this is in the real world. What it takes to fight a world war. My dad landed on some island, he never even knew the name, or had forgotten, and was cut off and left on an island with a few hundred guys "alone". He had been shot too to make it even more challenging. They lived on banana's for weeks before being 'rescued". Brief stay in hospital and back into the fray. Landed somewhere in the Philippines. The Japanese had dug tunnels and filled them with explosives, and his platoon was blown up. He was the only surviver. Sent home with shrapnel in his head. And in 1955 a blood vessel let go and he died instantly. That's war. When guys come home from the Middle East its etched on their faces. These idiots who mistake attitude for aptitude.... Anyway, because of these heroes we get to screw around with toys and ride trains. But never forgetting how we got here.
My daughter lives in LA.. and has taken to riding the Surfliner or the Metroliner. Once to her destination.. she Ubers or uses Lyft. Way easier that trying to navigate the freeway parking lots!
Awesome history of Southern California. I've visited to Disneyland. But I've only seen small parts of San Diego. Hopefully I'll get to visit some time.
Jason Carpp hi Jason. San Diego is well worth seeing. We only say old town. Which s like going to San Francisco and only seeing fort point. We are heading back!!!
Ahhhh..... The second trip to LA!! Or was it the 3rd??? Could have been the 4th! I lost count! Anyway... Always an experience! Or... chalk it up to experience??? It's what happens when we get turned loose without adult supervision! I LOVE Old Town San Diego! Great food and fun!!
It’s a great ride. We have plans to get back to San Diego, and one of the things we want to do is ride this train north. As well as see Balboa Park in a bunch of other things.
This time you were in my part of the world Ocenside if you got off there and walked down the longest pier oon the West coast you could of had a bowl soup at Ruby's at the end the end of pier ,also you could have taken the Breeze from Oceanside to San Marcos a fun trip maybe next time
Back in the '60s, we used to grab a Coke at the end of the pier when we were fishing of the end of the pier. There was a little bait shop on the north side of the pier, about half-way out. I live in Vista now but haven't strolled the pier in years...
If you guys have any plans to come back out to Old Town San Diego, you HAVE to check out the Old Town Model Railroad Depot!! I know you're HO modelers, but this is a wonderful O gauge layout with lots of details that I know you both would just enjoy!! Check out their website at www.oldtowntrains.com/
No, we all all over the board, railroad, such is it is so far, is 1:20.3 . But we collect damn near everything. every scale. Every supject. Karyn even has a collection of miniature washing machines. Geeeeezzzzzz.
I enjoyed the program as I'd often ride DOWN to San Diego or San Juan Cap from the Valley (which is NOT LA, Thank you very much! ). I was disappointed that while you showed the neat San Juan Capistrano Station, you didn't mention it, as you were talking about Anaheim instead. I just love riding along the coast, either between San Juan Cap and Torrey Pines or from Ventura UP the coast to Santa Barbara (and it's mission - Spanish, not LDS ) and up to San Luis Obispo. So relaxing. However, do NOT bring your own booze on the train as Amtrak prohibits the consumption of such in public areas. Yes, you can drink your own booze in your SLEEPER, but not coach! The idea is it is a public venue, and they don't want a bunch of rowdy characters causing problems for the other passengers. It's easier to control alcohol consumption and abuse this way. And yes, I've seen people cut off in the lounge car having imbibed too much - it probably was a Utahn raised on 3.2 beer, and not being used to the REAL McCoy! Finally, while I personally wouldn't do it, but you could take Metrolink DOWN to Oceanside, and continue DOWN to San Diego (and Balboa Park) on the Coaster. The two commuter agencies meet there and have a joint station. But I'd prefer the more comfortable Pacific Surfliners DOWN to San Diego and back UP north to LA-LA land, especially if I took Business Class! Oh yeah yes, don't forget one of the earliest and arguably one of the most successful Light Rail Systems, the San Diego Trolley. It's fun to ride to Tijuana or wherever!
Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. No worries. The Wicked Which of the West took up smoking weed and joined a vegan commune. Mostly harmless these days. Just don't get her talking politics.
Riding the Surfliner to Disneyland is one of the best kept secrets out there. The Anaheim Resort Transit offers free shuttle service (if you show the driver your Metrolink/Amtrak ticket) from Anaheim Station to Disneyland and back. Ever since I started taking the train to Disneyland from San Diego over a year ago, I've never driven to the parks ever again.
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't know!!!! WOW!!!!!!
I live here and I can never get enough of the weather
Me too. Sort of. Had to move away from Ojai. Old home burned in the Thomas. Underwater in 2005. Don't get me started on the mud slides. The odd earthquake. Still, best place in the world.
The weather is nearly perfect year 'round.. Not as much diversity as Utah though.. Wait 10 minutes or drive 5 miles.. and the weather changes.. and not necessarily for the better. LOL!
Thanks, Dale and Karyn, for taking us all along for the ride on your trip to San Diego. My wife and I, our 2 daughters, and my in-laws visiting from out-of-town, all went to Old Town San Diego around the same time you did. We were there on New Year's Eve.
The first Amtrak train I ever rode was from Santa Ana to San Diego in the late 1970s. It was a wonderful trip, especially along the Pacific coastline. Back then, this Amtrak train was called the San Diegan. Almost 10 years earlier, I rode the original San Diegan in the other direction from Santa Ana to Los Angeles when the Santa Fe railway operated it.
While you were in San Diego, you should have visited Balboa Park to see and take video of 2 other great model train sites. The first is the San Diego Model Railroad Museum with several magnificent operating indoor layouts in N, HO and O scales. The second Balboa Park site has a somewhat larger scale outdoor model railroad that real people can actually ride on. Kids love it. It looks similar to the train scale that Walt Disney originally built at his home long before Disneyland was a dream. This Balboa Park outdoor railroad is located somewhat close to the San Diego Zoo entrance.
Anytime you want to find out something about trains, especially around San Diego, please feel free to ask me. I grew up in Southern California and lived between San Diego and Orange Counties most of my life. Now I live with my family just south of the border along Mexico's Pacific coast (but still close to Southern California), that is, when I'm not driving my 18-wheeler down the highway somewhere in USA.
-from Tom Pilling
Near Ensenada Mexico? Was there in about 59. My Uncle took us to Ensenada by way of Canada!!!! He wanted to do the entire PCH. So, we did. At this time of year. So we could do Chinese New Year in Chinatown in San Fran. I learned so much about screwing around from him. ANYWAY, we do plan to get back. I also want to see the outdoor pipe organ at Balboa Park. Oh, and the Zoo again. Both of those. Skipping Sea World.... We MAY cross the border. A bit iffy about that. But the food is great...... PS we have the N scale convention here in Salt Lake in June. Going to mention that on Sunday.
Dale, Ensenada is still very fun place to screw around, but I actually live closer to Rosarito Beach. If you come to Mexico sometime in the future, be sure to check out the new Tren Turistico (Baja Tourist Train). It operates on the former Southern Pacific Lines/San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway tracks on the Mexican side of the border between Tijuana and Tecate, home of the famous Tecate brewery.
The Baja Tourist Train doesn't run every day, but only on special dates. Hopefully, you could plan a future border crossing to correspond with one of train's excursion dates. I believe that the depot for boarding this train is right next to the main pedestrian (not car) border crossing into Tijuana from the San Diego Trolley station in San Ysidro. The depot is located just after you walk out of Mexican Customs on the Mexican side of the border.
Please keep in mind that international border crossing requirements have changed in the years since you last crossed. You must now show a US Passport to enter Mexico (even only to go into a bordertown) and also to return to USA.
Here's the link to the Baja Tourist Train's Spanish-only website, but a quick Google search will provide additional informational resources about it in English: trenturisticobc.com
I wish I was at my home in Mexico now. But instead I'm in your neck of the woods. Today (Sunday, Feb. 18), I parked my big rig at a truck stop in Brigham City, Utah, to sit out this major winter storm that's dumping so much snow on the Wasatch Front. I'll leave here tomorrow to pick up a load in Ogden and take it down to Phoenix, Arizona.
I look forward to seeing your video about the upcoming N scale convention. Sadly, my work schedule as a trucker probably won't allow me to come to Salt Lake City for this awesome convention.
BTW, this is the second time to remind you that it was me (yes, little old me) who FIRST informed you last year that the 2018 National N Scale Convention would be held in Salt Lake City. I know you have many subscribers, but I wish you would remember that about me as one of your very faithful viewers.
Happy rails to you!
-from Tom Pilling
It's a wonderful place to visit for the Holidays... any holiday!!
Long as I can get a proper taco there. No chicken!!! No cabbage!!!!!!! YUK.
Last time I rode the train down to San Diego was 1979, time for another leisurely trip! Thanks for the post Toy Man!
It had been years since I had been to San Diego.. Never by train. So this was a fun experience!
Be sure to check out Balboa Park next time you go to San Diego. There is a great air/space museum and also a model railroad museum with about 10 different layouts (including an amazing one of the Tehachapi Loop) of all different scales inside.
Great episode. I hope becoming Accidental Tourists in LA wasn't too much of a hassle for you guys. ;) I think I would lose my mind. Can't wait for the next episode!
Next wee was are back to Steve's railroad to look at the FINISHED village of Knowair
Like Tony Bennett leaving his heart in San Francisco.. Better than leaving my cell phone on a trolly and having to chase it. We chalk it up to and adventure... Usually AFTER we are home. LOL!
I once had a bumper sticker which read: Of All the Things I've Lost.... I Miss My Mind the Most!
Don't think for one minute out those Element windows we don't see the snow covered streets. The contrast of your Christmas antics and seeing the snow of Utah is almost funny. There are worse things than missing your stop. Hey, y'all had the ear of the conductor/coordinator. That community you saw from the window of your Surfliner is actually where we took our Rosie the Wonder Dog to, uh, well you know. (It's okay we travel with bags.) Enjoyed this to hell and back. Keep it up. Greg and Jeanne.
God bless Rosie the Wonder Dog!!!! Little know fact: God is a Dog looking in a mirror. Thats why we call him God.
Bet a dog would miss the stop.
Seriously... Utah has really diverse weather! One minute snow.. The next.. Sunshine and green grass! All we have to do is get the right exit off from I-15... Not the I-15.. Just I-15... We can be in California...... Just-like-that! LOL!!
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!! "We jackjawed the conductor all the way to LA" You could make a song out of that. Remind me never to go on a train trip with you guys, mainly since I'd probably do the exact same thing to the conductor, and you two for that matter!!! Another great show as always.
Can't stop yacking. Both of us. Oops..
I love all your videos, but there's something extra cool about getting a notification and seeing my favorite UA-camrs screwing around and practicing the high art in the same places I know and love so well!
We do have a blast! Love So Cal! Lots to see and do there!!
You're on my home turf & yet I'm learning from your reports great research amazing😎
I guess win you live so close to something you don't know a lot of the details in the booklet cheers from Encinitas California 70 yards from the coaster & Amtrak line
COOL!!! You live in a great place. But heck, you know that. We are heading back soon. Never sure when. We will be heading south and just keep going. It's what we do.....
Impulsive seems to work for you two. Keep it up. :)
Yup. When I was going to school in Paris on Friday I would go down to Gare Du Nord and walk the platform until I spotted an overnight train to someplace interesting. Had a rail pass. Come the morning, get off and screw around in wherever. Grand days.
Boy are we impulsive!! It's the kids turn to worry now!! LOL!!
Dale, I have been watching your videos for over a year as a subscriber (and loving it), but my students still say I'm not cool. What's up?
Students need to be taught. Anyway, they don't know the word cool. Try Dank on them. And use "dude". Dude, that's so dank!!!!!
Both Dale and I are/were educators.. If your students think that you are not cool... You are probably doing your job correctly! LOL! As long as they are learning!! :D
The best part is the food, I really love Mexican food and there are so many great restaurants in Cali. I grew up in So Cal and was use to being spoiled for choice with all the great restaurants, whither it was Mexican, Chinese or whatever. Now I live in a tiny town in the middle of Idaho and there's just not a whole lot to choose from..
I, too, LOVE Mexican food! My only requirement is... It has to be authentic! Being immersed in the culture for most of my life, I can really tell a difference! The prep time is measurable! But... YUMMY at the family gathering. The only thing I would change, if I could, would be Tamales.... There should be a rule.. It should take as long to eat them, as it does to make them!! LOL!
Me encanta! Just beautiful ♥️
We want to get back riding trains together. Soon. I think the pandemic will begin to go away soon
Yeah right accidental missed your stop yeah right you just wanted to be on the train even longer and I do not blame you another great adventure thank you for sharing
We were SO TIRED. Middle of the night and off to LA!!!!!! Coffee at the Union Depot and back to the hotel. ARUG!!!!!!!!!!
Well darling daughter, we were just out SCREWING AROUND!!
LOL! She was actually cool with it. I just sent her a text message to "keep the porch light a burnin'.... We were going to be late returning! When I told her what happened... She about died laughing! She was just happy that she didn't have to post bail or something! LOL!!
When you mentioned how it was sad that the oldest building in San Diago was built in the 1830s I chuckled to myself. The oldest building on my continent dates from 1793 (unless you count Captain Cook's cottage which was relocated here or a ramshackle fort wall made by shipwrecked mutineers in the 1600s)
If you’re ever in San Diego again there is a train layout in old town and there is the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park. Hopefully you do a video on that sometime in the future.
Hi on our list!!!!!!! Like Mccarthur We will be back!!
That's Arnie, Mac was "I Shall Return!"
My dad was with Mac when he returned. Which is why he died when I was 4. But they got the job done.
I am ever so sorry about your loss. My Dad was aboard an LST, and he was home here in Salt Lake on leave. Due to weather, he ended up missing Ships Movement, and was reassigned to Pearl for the duration. He found out later that his ship took a Kamikaze hit on the bridge. My Dads battle station had been the bridge. He didn't talk about that part of his service very often. And Yes, the Army (including the Air Corp), Marines and Navy Guys and Gals not only got the job done, they did it WELL! Thankfully, they had the backing from the people here, they worked and served well too. Bless them all. Quotes like "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy", "I Shall Return", "Nuts" and "These proceedings are closed." are very meaningful to me, which is why I made my reply.
Yes. When I see people putting on camo and strutting with their AR15 I'm never sure if I want to laugh or cry. They have no clue what this is in the real world. What it takes to fight a world war. My dad landed on some island, he never even knew the name, or had forgotten, and was cut off and left on an island with a few hundred guys "alone". He had been shot too to make it even more challenging. They lived on banana's for weeks before being 'rescued". Brief stay in hospital and back into the fray. Landed somewhere in the Philippines. The Japanese had dug tunnels and filled them with explosives, and his platoon was blown up. He was the only surviver. Sent home with shrapnel in his head. And in 1955 a blood vessel let go and he died instantly. That's war. When guys come home from the Middle East its etched on their faces. These idiots who mistake attitude for aptitude.... Anyway, because of these heroes we get to screw around with toys and ride trains. But never forgetting how we got here.
Love the trip. Did it as a small child. I hear they have a model train display in "old town" San Diego.
Missed that. Need to get back!!!
Nice trip accidental or not! My wife will take the Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to see the grand daughter and her parents :) in Orange County.
My daughter lives in LA.. and has taken to riding the Surfliner or the Metroliner. Once to her destination.. she Ubers or uses Lyft. Way easier that trying to navigate the freeway parking lots!
I love Old Town. The old Santa Fe depot in downtown San Diego is pretty too.
I really love it there! Must go back soon!
Love the second Ooops! trip to L.A.
Actually..... It was the third... Hey! But who's counting?? :D
Awesome history of Southern California. I've visited to Disneyland. But I've only seen small parts of San Diego. Hopefully I'll get to visit some time.
Jason Carpp hi Jason. San Diego is well worth seeing. We only say old town. Which s like going to San Francisco and only seeing fort point. We are heading back!!!
The last time I was in San Diego was back in 1992. I'd visit again if I had someone to travel with.
Karyn, you are a Saint!
Ahhhh..... The second trip to LA!! Or was it the 3rd??? Could have been the 4th! I lost count! Anyway... Always an experience! Or... chalk it up to experience??? It's what happens when we get turned loose without adult supervision!
I LOVE Old Town San Diego! Great food and fun!!
The San Diego line will always be Santa Fe to me. My grandfather would take me on the train in the 1950's.
It’s a great ride. We have plans to get back to San Diego, and one of the things we want to do is ride this train north. As well as see Balboa Park in a bunch of other things.
You guys outta ride the California Zephyr over Donner Pass next winter if you want to see some of the best scenery Cali has to offer.
Did Feather River once. Planning on that too. WOW!!!!
Whew!! Been over it in a car.. But a train would be even better!!
Karyn Felix-Angell Trust me, it makes a world of difference.
This time you were in my part of the world Ocenside if you got off there and walked down the longest pier oon the West coast you could of had a bowl soup at Ruby's at the end the end of pier ,also you could have taken the Breeze from Oceanside to San Marcos a fun trip maybe next time
Back in the '60s, we used to grab a Coke at the end of the pier when we were fishing of the end of the pier. There was a little bait shop on the north side of the pier, about half-way out. I live in Vista now but haven't strolled the pier in years...
Chowder..... Claaaaaammmm Chowder!
If you guys have any plans to come back out to Old Town San Diego, you HAVE to check out the Old Town Model Railroad Depot!! I know you're HO modelers, but this is a wonderful O gauge layout with lots of details that I know you both would just enjoy!! Check out their website at www.oldtowntrains.com/
No, we all all over the board, railroad, such is it is so far, is 1:20.3 . But we collect damn near everything. every scale. Every supject. Karyn even has a collection of miniature washing machines. Geeeeezzzzzz.
I enjoyed the program as I'd often ride DOWN to San Diego or San Juan Cap from the Valley (which is NOT LA, Thank you very much! ). I was disappointed that while you showed the neat San Juan Capistrano Station, you didn't mention it, as you were talking about Anaheim instead. I just love riding along the coast, either between San Juan Cap and Torrey Pines or from Ventura UP the coast to Santa Barbara (and it's mission - Spanish, not LDS ) and up to San Luis Obispo. So relaxing.
However, do NOT bring your own booze on the train as Amtrak prohibits the consumption of such in public areas. Yes, you can drink your own booze in your SLEEPER, but not coach! The idea is it is a public venue, and they don't want a bunch of rowdy characters causing problems for the other passengers. It's easier to control alcohol consumption and abuse this way. And yes, I've seen people cut off in the lounge car having imbibed too much - it probably was a Utahn raised on 3.2 beer, and not being used to the REAL McCoy!
Finally, while I personally wouldn't do it, but you could take Metrolink DOWN to Oceanside, and continue DOWN to San Diego (and Balboa Park) on the Coaster. The two commuter agencies meet there and have a joint station. But I'd prefer the more comfortable Pacific Surfliners DOWN to San Diego and back UP north to LA-LA land, especially if I took Business Class! Oh yeah yes, don't forget one of the earliest and arguably one of the most successful Light Rail Systems, the San Diego Trolley. It's fun to ride to Tijuana or wherever!
I am secretly working on my family to travel west. It is almost succeeding!
Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. No worries. The Wicked Which of the West took up smoking weed and joined a vegan commune. Mostly harmless these days. Just don't get her talking politics.
Just be careful traveling through Wyoming! There are Jack-a-lopes! Just head 'em off at the pass!
Nice
Thanks.
So are you going to see the big boy this summer
Yup. And Ft Collins to the HO museum.
Toy Man Television ok when do you think you will go to see it
Depot days for sure. One of the best train shows in America.
Toy Man Television ok I’ll be there
Stuff Happens
Sure does! We can laugh about it now! Heck... We were laughing while it was happening!
Don't call it a trolley. They HATE that ! I was banned from riding TRAX for calling it a trolley.
the S line is a trolley!!! Banned? That's like getting banned from church....
Yup! French! See that "S-car-Go!!"
Yes the train is the way to go but, I knew that 40 years ago...
Yup. Rode it coast to coast once. Need to do that again.....
476 in durango made its first run. DRIVE TOY MAN DRIVE
too cool!!!!! Dang, its snowing. Leave later....
Did you like the comment I left you last Sunday