Tulare Trip, March and April 2023

Mike Tisdale All Messages By This Member #1596 My wife and I had a long weekend in Visalia and Tulare, California, mostly visiting family, but I got a few train photos as well. We played leapfrog with a southbound UP freight on the trip there, and I finally got the DPUs in good light a bit north of Fresno. ?One day, I checked out the track in Oak Street and the old SP and Visalia Electric station in Visalia, then drove east to Exeter to see the San Joaquin Valley RR's facilities, which were built by the VE. The SJVR runs former SP and ATSF lines in the area as well as a bit of the VE. SP and ATSF had an extensive network of branch lines and secondary main lines in the San Joaquin Valley to serve agriculture and other business, much of which has been abandoned, and what is left is now operated by the SJVR. The VE was an SP interurban subsidiary that operated east and south east of Visalia and is almost all gone except for a short stretch in Exeter that SJVR uses to reach a former ATSF line.? I also happened to catch a UP northbound in Tulare one day. Cheers,? Mike Tisdale

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