San Joaquin Daylight

San Joaquin Daylight

An EMD SDP45 leads the San Joaquin Daylight at Martinez, California in 1971
Overview
Status	Discontinued
Locale	California
First service	July 4, 1941
Last service	April 30, 1971
Former operator(s)	Southern Pacific Transportation Company
Route
Termini	Los Angeles Union Station Oakland Pier
Train number(s)	51/52
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map v t e Legend San Francisco bus transfer San Francisco San Francisco Bay ferry 0mi Oakland Pier 2 mi 3 km Oakland (16th Street) 5 mi 8 km Berkeley 11 mi 18 km Richmond 25 mi 40 km Crockett 31 mi 50 km Martinez Shasta Daylight & City of San Francisco 45 mi 72 km Pittsburg 78 mi 126 km Tracy Sacramento Daylight 89 mi 143 km Lathrop 113 mi 182 km Modesto 126 mi 203 km Turlock 151 mi 243 km Merced 184 mi 296 km Madera San Joaquin River 206 mi 332 km Fresno 250 mi 402 km Tulare 281 mi 452 km Delano 313 mi 504 km Bakersfield Tehachapi Loop 361 mi 581 km Tehachapi 381 mi 613 km Mojave 406 mi 653 km Lancaster 450 mi 724 km Saugus Newhall Pass Coast Daylight, Lark 477 mi 768 km Glendale 483 mi 777 km Los Angeles

The San Joaquin Daylight was a Southern Pacific passenger train (train numbers 51 and 52) inaugurated between Los Angeles and San Francisco's Oakland Pier by way of the San Joaquin Valley and Tehachapi Pass on July 4, 1941. Travel times were between 12 hours (1970^[1]) and 14 hours (1944^[2]). It operated until the advent of Amtrak in 1971.