An inbound E Line train leaves Santa Monica station as it begins its trip to downtown Los Angeles.

Decided I'd do a little railfanning on foot this past Sunday, so walked over to the the Santa Monica station from my house. Here an outbound E Line train approaches the end of the line.

An outbound E Line train nears the end of its run in Santa Monica. It will come to a stop four blocks from the Pacific Ocean.

A Los Angeles bound train begins its trek slowly as it street runs on Colorado Avenue in downtown Santa Monica.

Santa Monica Bound E-Line Train nears its final destination in downtown Santa Monica.

One block away from Pacific Ocean

Los Angeles Metro light rail consist arrives at the Colorado/Fourth Street terminus only one block away from the Pacific ocean and the Santa ... (more)

Expo Line train heads east under a tangled web of catenary and cat-support wiring on its way from Santa Monica to Los Angeles.

A westbound Expo Line train curves from the original Pacific Electric right of way to the re-alignment required when the line was reactivated after buildings had been built on the most western end... (more)

An eastbound Expo Line train climbs up the grade separation at 20th Street in Santa Monica. This line is full of grade separations where the trains are the ones forced to climb and drop while the ... (more)

A set of new Kinkis pulls to make a station stop at Santa Monica College, while another set of the same cars stops on the opposite side of the platform.

A venerable (and soon to be retired) set of P865 cars run east towards Los Angeles passing the Associated Ready Mix cement plant, one of the very last vestiges of when Santa Monica had an industri... (more)

An outbound train to Santa Monica nears its final destination as it passes the one-time location of locally famous Santa Monica Seafood.

A set of Metro's oldest cars leads the 906AM train to Los Angeles past the bust Associated Ready Mix plant on a gorgeous Southern California summer morning.

An outbound Expo train passes the busy Associated Ready Mix plant along what was once an industrial part of the city of Santa Monica. There were two concrete plants like this still along the line ... (more)

This photo is mid-afternoon on a day without a cloud in the sky. What you are seeing is smoke from the Sand Fire, 40 miles away. Sand Fire smoke covered Santa Monica for most of the day leaving it... (more)