Amtrak northbound San Joaquin No. 717, running this cloudy afternoon with one of the lower-level, ex-NJT comet car sets, calls on the original 1900-built, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway depot. In a few, short moments, the conductor will radio to the engineer that the train is ready to highball for points north - with the train's final destination of Oakland just under two hours away still. In the background to the upper right, downtown Stockton can be seen.
From one train each way in 1973 between Bakersfield and Oakland when it started up, this line as expanded to six trips daily; four to Oakland and two to Sacramento.
