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.

The photo here shows the train running through downtown Coos Bay, where there was even a short stretch of street running, and passing the Tioga Hotel, a notable landmark in the city. This photo is not in sequential order with some of the others I've posted previously.