Western Railroad Discussion > I Had To Go To Modesto, But I Did Shoot A Vid

Modesto is about 80 miles south of Sacramento, and about 95 miles east of San Francisco. I trust that you have heard of at least one of those cities.

This was filmed today (15 APR 18) before a live studio audience at the Amtrak Station on the formerly ATSF mainline. Modesto is also served by UP trains on the old WP tracks. Although shooting into the sun, I wanted to have the steam locomotive in the background to show how old meets new at this new location for the ATSF 4-8-4.

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Thanks for showing the entire train. I am surprised it had no DPUs.

Actually Western Pacific never went to Modesto. UP runs on former Tidewater Southern (although most have been torn out) and Southern Pacific tracks.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/18 20:17 by EricSP.

Thanks Eric

By the time that I became a railfan in the early 1980’s, everything started turning yellow around those parts. I did get to see trains running down 9th St.

Thank God the Espee would never suffer that same fate..

ATSF RR Bob (I think that’s his handle here on TO) and I saw a UP local working around Mariposa, but didn’t bother to even slow down. We still had an appointment to make. A couple hours later I was shooting the video, so everything worked out well. This is the first video that I’ve recorded on my new picture taker, an iPhone X. Once again I forgot to clean the lens prior to the picture taken process. I thought of it during the fliming, but it was too late. I hate it when I make misteaks.

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Larry --
Thanks for the video -- and thanks for showing the whole train.

"Misteaks" -- LOL! And how on earth did you get TO to display your name upside-down? :) Very clever!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/18 14:15 by Margaret_SP_fan.

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Nice video Larry but Bob is in it.(LOL)
Thanks for the whole train.

Tim
Hanesworth

EricSP Wrote:
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> Thanks for showing the entire train. I am
> surprised it had no DPUs.
>
> Actually Western Pacific never went to Modesto. UP
> runs on former Tidewater Southern (although most
> have been torn out) and Southern Pacific tracks.


Only 55 cars. Three units up front is sufficient. That would be my guess why there is no Locotrol (DPU).

SantaFeRuss

Nice video, very enjoyable to get new passing great steam.
SuperChiefDon

EricSP Wrote:
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> Actually Western Pacific never went to Modesto. UP
> runs on former Tidewater Southern (although most
> have been torn out) and Southern Pacific tracks.


A small nit but the Tidewater Southern was a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Pacific and was assimilated into the "Borg" realm when the WP-UP-MP "merger" happened. Same for the remnants of the Sacramento Northern. So technically WP did reach into Modesto, albeit indirectly.


best regards,
Mark G.

Alright, y’all forced me to show my hand. For those out of the area, and or out of the country/continent I dumbed down my post. I mentioned how far away San Francisco is because a lot of people all around the world have heard of SF. I should have mentioned that 80 miles = 128.748 kilometers.

I mentioned WP for similar reasons.

I’m surprised that no one mentioned my subject line “poetry.”

I Had To Go

To Modesto,

But I Did

Shoot A Vid

It took me a couple minutes to come up with that one. I hope y’all enjoyed it!

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MarkG Wrote:
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> EricSP Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Actually Western Pacific never went to Modesto.
> UP
> > runs on former Tidewater Southern (although
> most
> > have been torn out) and Southern Pacific
> tracks.
>
>
> A small nit but the Tidewater Southern was a
> wholly owned subsidiary of Western Pacific and was
> assimilated into the "Borg" realm when the
> WP-UP-MP "merger" happened. Same for the remnants
> of the Sacramento Northern. So technically WP did
> reach into Modesto, albeit indirectly.
>
>
> best regards,
> Mark G.

Yes TS was a subsidiary of WP but it was TS, not WP, that went through Modesto.