Amtrak 113 Arrives in Salem Canvas Print

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Amtrak train #11, the southbound Coast Starlight pulls into the station at Salem, Oregon on May 28 2001. The train is led by a GE P42 Genesis locomotive in Amtrak's then-current Phase III color scheme. I boarded this train and left town a few minutes after making this photo.

Photo Copyright James B. Toy

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...