Classic route
San Joaquins
Oakland → Bakersfield · United States
San Joaquins in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 507 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak · SJJPA
- Train
- Siemens Venture · Charger
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1974
- Riders per year
- ≈ 900k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Central Valley workhorse whose Thruway buses fan out to Yosemite, LA and the coast; over half of riders connect to a bus.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4668742 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak · SJJPA — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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