Salinas Freight Train Canvas Print

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A short freight train led by the Union Pacific locomotive 1346. The EMD GP40-2 locomotive is painted in the colors of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad which was once a division of the Southern Pacific railroad until SP merged with UP. Evidently UP chose not to repaint the entire locomotive but instead simply placed the UP logo over the original paint. I photographed this train in April 2003 from the passenger platform at the Salinas Amtrak station.

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...