The SJVR Photo Line. An impromtu photo line has been formed by three of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad's units as they pose in the Bakersfield yard on a cloudy morning. Moving from lef... (more)

BNSF 4061 is on the rear of a Northbound stack train as it pauses at the somewhat classic sign on the yard office at BNSF's Bakersfield yard.

A southbound BNSF manifest grinds upgrade towards Sandcut as the sun drops over Bakersfield.

A brand-new GP50 leads an intermodal train into the yard as an eastbound prepares to depart for Tehachapi Pass and Barstow.

SP's famous "Cans" emerge from Tunnel 5 at the west end of Cliff siding in the Tehachapis.

A Roger Puta Photograph

Glint off Caboose 999325. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Little Too Late to Save the SP

The largest single order for a single class (GF644L-2) of locomotives ever by the Southern Pacific was for 279 General Electric AC4400CW diesels. Th... (more)

A quiet Sunday afternoon in Bakersfield, CA finds San Joaquin Valley Railroad power tied down at Gomez at the west end of BNSF's Bakersfield yard. For BNSF however there is work to be done as a pa... (more)

Passing through the rural oil rich fields of north Bakersfield in southern California's Kern County, SJVR's westbound 905 job rumbles up former Santa Fe iron (now the short-line's Landco Subdivisi... (more)

PRLX 2941 awaits delivery to it's new home in California's Central Valley at Kings Mill, seen here in the late afternoon at BNSF's Bakersfield Yard.

Freshly painted UP 652 at Bakersfield.

At 7:25 pm on July 26th, 2015, Amtrak train 716, a southbound San Joaquin, has just arrived - on time! - in Bakersfield, California - completing its 315-mile journey begun at 3:03 pm in Oak... (more)

Amtrak California passenger car #8031 has an axle changed at the Bakersfield, CA Amtrak station.