Costa Mesa Local

I have seen this local probably since I was 5. This has always been my favorite local, probably because this train has the nicest crews in the entire world. Anyway, this train runs from the little yard in Anahiem, to the Costa Mesa area, working industries along the way. All the work is done on the Santa Ana Industrial Lead, (which is split in two parts, you can read more about that here) and it runs a bit on Metrolinks Orange Subdivision to get to the other part of the Lead. I have lots of video of this job, some of which is viewable on my youtube channel, (see below). I have wonderful memories of talking to Randy, who has since retired, and seeing him run the Gensets down Santa Ana Street. Also, now gone unfortunately, is a wig wag signal, that used to be along this route too.

Note! This information is specific to Monday, Wensday and Friday! On Tues and Thurs, they go down the Stanton Lead, which I don't know much about.

LOA32 gets on duty around 500, leaving around 530. First, they go north on the Santa Ana Industrial Lead to pick up the days loads. (Loaded cars are stored on the black portion on the map.) Then, they switch the cars till about 700-730, and they leave anahiem, and streetrun on Santa Ana street. Then, they work International Paper, swapping loaded and empty boxcars and centerbeam cars. An easy place to see this is at the grade crossing on Ball Road. They can take as little as 20 minutes to as long as an hour to work this industry. Then, they leave and go down the lead and eveantully get on the Orange Subdivision at South Anahiem Wye. Once they get on the Orange Sub, they really pick up speed so it really becomes a chase. Then, they get back on the Industrial Lead at CP 4th, and they go and work Altium Packaging, who receives hoppers, most likely full of plastic pellets. When done, they go much farther down the Lead and work Behr Paint, which can take as much as two hours. When done working Behr (who gets tank cars), they go all the way back that they came. If your at Behr, if you get on the freeway and really gun it, you might be able to catch them streetrunning again to get back to the yard. Once they get back to Anahiem, they don't stop, but they go and drop off their empties. Then, they go back light engine and tie down. You can usually talk to the crew after this, and ask if Pete is there, he was always a super nice man. 

(Another Note. This job can also go down to Marlboro (this job replaced the Marlboro job), but I don't know much about what they do down there.)