mook Wrote:
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> Just curious ... a few months ago I had some
> meetings in downtown LA and flew to Burbank for
> the train connection. WB Amtrak was in the station
> when I got there, with a EB freight in push mode
> (caboose!) waiting just out of the station.
> Amtrak left, freight proceeded with hand horn,
> then my EB Metrolink arrived less than 5 minutes
> later. Freight had maybe 4-5 cars. But it had
> vanished by the time my train left -- no sign of
> it anywhere down the line, and we had no speed
> restrictions. No it did NOT cross over just east
> of the airport station, and there was noplace else
> for it to hide -- all the sidings once we got onto
> the main line toward Glendale were full of parked
> baretables. Was this a ghost train? Twas around
> 0830. No camera of course...


That was the Saugus Local that you saw. At Burbank Jct. it reversed direction and went up, locos forward, towards Newhall and Saugus. You didn't see it again because it had left the line you were on only a mile or so east of the station.