It was June of 1974, Richard Nixon was still president but in two months would become the first person to ever resign from that office. That same month, a photo special was operated on the California Western using both of their steam locomotives, 2-6-6-2 #46 and 2-8-2 #45 from Fort Bragg to Willits and return. In this photo, the train is getting ready to depart Willits for Fort Bragg and excercising a short amount of trackage rights over the NWP.