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Turlock Trip Trains, 25 November 2023
I drove south on State Route 99 to Turlock, California on 25 November and in Manteca, where the UP Fresno Sub meets up with 99, I noticed the signals were red. I soon caught up to the DPUs of a southbound manifest train and managed to get a shot out the car window as the freeway went over the track at the south end of Modesto. I got ahead of the train and shot it in Ceres, then was back on the freeway when I saw a northbound that UP 8057 had met in Ceres siding. That one I got from the shady side, unlike the photos of 8057. A grain mill at Keyes, California has a GP9 owned by A L Gilbert that I've been wanting to photograph and I got some out the window shots as I passed. There is no way to get into the mill, so this, too, was a shady side shot from the freeway. The last shots were at the north side of Turlock. The tracks separate from 99 in Turlock for a few miles. I found a spot with an irrigation canal and orchard. Coming north, I got an *eh* shot of a southbound train in Turlock. I was trying to find a good spot and settled for a parking lot.
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Turlock Trip Trains, 25 November 2023
I drove south on State Route 99 to Turlock, California on 25 November and in Manteca, where the UP Fresno Sub meets up with 99, I noticed the signals were red. I soon caught up to the DPUs of a southbound manifest train and managed to get a shot out the car window as the freeway went over the track at the south end of Modesto. I got ahead of the train and shot it in Ceres, then was back on the freeway when I saw a northbound that UP 8057 had met in Ceres siding. That one I got from the shady side, unlike the photos of 8057. A grain mill at Keyes, California has a GP9 owned by A L Gilbert that I've been wanting to photograph and I got some out the window shots as I passed. There is no way to get into the mill, so this, too, was a shady side shot from the freeway. The last shots were at the north side of Turlock. The tracks separate from 99 in Turlock for a few miles. I found a spot with an irrigation canal and orchard. Coming north, I got an *eh* shot of a southbound train in Turlock. I was trying to find a good spot and settled for a parking lot.