Early morning San Joaquin 711 has just passed Riverbank Yard bound for Stockton Ca.

Early morning northbound San Joaquin has just departed Modesto Amtrak Station.

Charging into the future. Amtrak/Amtrak California has taken delivery of new Siemens Venture coaches for testing. The semi-permanently coupled five car set represents the future of train travel fo... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin rolls through Escalon on the Stockton Sub.

Heading north toward its stop in Modesto, California, CDTX F59PHI 2014 pulls a four-car Amtrak San Joaquin, train 717, toward its final destination of San Jose. This train originated in Ba... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin crosses the bridge at Empire Ca.

Things appear to be almost normal this afternoon as Amtrak 712 hustles across one of the rust-colored spans here at Orwood. Almost normal, because if one looks closely between the P42 shoving on t... (more)

San Joaquin 710 digs in for the next station at Denair Ca.

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 Railwa... (more)

First light spills onto the floor of the fertile, Central Valley of California as an appropriately named Amtrak San Joaquin races south across the Merced River over the original ATSF span h... (more)

San Joaquin 712 about to arrive at Modesto.

Southbound San Joaquin 710 at Modesto.

Amtrak San Joaquin 716 creeps through the S-curves in Ballico, California, because of a report that a crossing gate had been struck by a truck not long because this Oakland to Bakersfield t... (more)

Southbound San Joaquin races across the Stanislaus River to Modesto Station.