From Conrail To California. On the night of July 21, 2020, the Genesee & Wyoming (GW) owned San Joaquin Valley Railroad (SJVR) Exeter to Fresno job was getting its train together to depart ... (more)

SJVR 3533 at Bakersfield.

A variety of SJVR power awaits their next assignment in Bakersfield.

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9R 104, seen here at the railroad's headquarters in Exeter, in California's San Joaquin Valley, is ex-Kyle Railroad 104, ex-San Diego & Arizona Eastern 104, and was o... (more)

New Knoxville Locomotive Works SE24B`s pass thru Chattanooga Tn on their way to California.

One of two new SJVR GP39-3's is the lead unit just south of Gosford Jct.

The SJVR 920 job takes 41 cars from the UP to the BNSF in Bakersfield with a pair of ex-PSI Energy GP38-2s for power as they pass a trainset off Amtrak 710 at the depot.

The 608 job works around Goshen with a GP38-2 with an extra small fuel tank for power.

Second Generation Branch Line. On the evening of Tuesday, July 21, 2020, Genesee & Wyoming's San Joaquin Valley Railroad 2122 (BL20-2, EMD, 1992) leads SJVR 3000 (Progress Rail PR30B) and a... (more)

The 905 job (far left) switches out cars in the BNSF yard at Bakersfield as other power lays over for the weekend.

Really lower emissions. San Joaquin Valley Railroad is the sole owner of the Progress Rail class of PR30Bs. In 2012, four of these Tier IV emissions compliant units were produced on the frames of ... (more)

Two SJVR ex-Conrail units, a GP15-1 and GP38 (which also spent time on the PLE, among others) layover for the weekend in Bakersfield.

A trainload of contaminated soil heads west on the former Coalinga Branch. As another long, hot day in the San Joaquin Valley becomes evening, thunderheads are building over the Sierra Nevada to t... (more)

SJVR 2121 works the Union Pacific Yard in Bakersfield in the golden afternoon light as the Tehachapi Mountain Range looms in the background. Out of picture to the right, Amtrak 14 holds short of K... (more)

Brand new SJVR 2407 at Ventura Street in Fresno.