ATSF682 EB Riverbank, CA 2/9/97

ATSF 682 approaches the Parker Rd grade crossing south of Riverbank, CA with a GP60B as the #2 unit. The new Modesto Amtrak station will be constructed at this location starting later in 1997, but at the time of the photo, the setting was still pastoral, and the San Joaquins still stopped at the old ATSF depot at Riverbank. I used to live 1.5 miles from here, and would hear the trains whistling at the grade crossings...the good old days indeed!