Here's a photo I took on April 18, 1996, TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, of a "rare mileage" special train operated by Clark Johnson and Nona Hill's High Iron Travel company that ran on the Coos Bay Branch of the then-Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad, which was a spin-off of a Southern Pacific branch line. This was when CORP was still operating the line to Coos Bay and before it was owned by Genesee & Wyoming. G&W's locomotives with their distinctive paint scheme had yet to show up on the property.

This photo, not in sequential order with the other ones I've posted, shows the power being run around to the opposite end of the train in preparation for departure from Coos Bay.

The man in the light-colored jacket on the rear platform of the Caritas is the late Peter Putnam Bretz, a railfan from Los Angeles. With the passage of twenty-seven years, several of the people I made this trip with are no longer with us.