On a warm summer morning, SJVR's Hanford Job waits for the Santa Fe's 991 train in downtown Hanford, California. It will be a hot day, so the SJVR crew has fully engaged their air conditioning dev... (more)

After flagging a crossing east of town, the local is back up to track speed (10mph) as it rolls into Azusa and past the original Santa Fe depot here, now boarded up with an uncertain future.

Two days before the ringing in of the new year, SJVR 440, a 1966-built GP40 that has seen service on the Milwaukee Road, Soo Line and Florida East Coast prior to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, t... (more)

Rare eastbound manifest South Pasadena on primarily passenger and local only Second District original main line into the Los Angeles area. Old UP Pasadena Branch right of way in the foreground.

A ex Rail America wide cab GP40 now lettered for SJVR is found in the town of Dinuba north of Visalia.

Westbound SP beet empties Norwalk

Land o' Goshen! Tied down the the day in Goshen, California, is San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP40 440. This engine's heritage is evident by the old paint job, revealing it to be the former... (more)

A warm Sunday morning in the central valley finds an SJVRR freight sporting a GP38 in old RailAmerica colors tied down in Goshen a couple of miles east of the UP mainline.

The Goshen job runs light along an industrial park as it heads back to its cut of cars to pick up some more deliveries.

SJVR power sits at the West end of UP's Bakersfield yard. CEFX 3048 and SJVR 2122 in the company's new G&W paint.

Pasadena was the first stop for Santa Fe trains departing Los Angeles - Trains such as The Super Chief, The El Capitan and The Chief. And, when traveling by rail from Los Ang... (more)

a rare eastbound passes over the 110 Pasadena Fwy in Highland Park, CA due to either a derailment or trackwork on the normally used San Bernardino Sub

Santa Fe in conjunction with Amtrak ran a "Centennial Special" celebrating one hundred years of passenger service over the original line from LA east, the Pasadena Sub.

returning from Winterail '92 the SP "Valley Pigs" this day were led by a pair of Rio Grande GP40's shown crossing a Santa Fe branch at Tulare, CA

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)