We stayed at the aptly named Cal Expo RV Park.

Parts of this glorified parking lot actually looked pretty nice with some fall colors.

Our assigned spot was a rather utilitarian gravel pit surrounded by other high rollin' big rigs.

Convenient location near the Expo grounds, the American River, and town.

Our neighbor spent about an hour fiddling with his tripod-based internet satellite dish. I'm not sure he ever got it working.

Of course, our automatic dish isn't perfect either, thanks to super-installer Bill Adams positioning it where the TV antenna can run into it.

We decided to stock up on "Two Buck Chuck" at a Trader Joe's before we left California.

Carey took a bike ride along the river trail one afternoon.

Rather nice path that went for quite a way along the river.

Pedestrian version of the Golden Gate bridge.

The sun lined up rather perfectly for this one.

The so-called Old Sacramento district.

Historic row of semi-restored buildings.

The really fancy California State Railroad Museum building.

Union Pacific car outside.

No. 1010 sitting in a garage.

Appropriate logo.

Caboose.

Early steam engine about to enter an early version of the snowsheds along the route through the Sierra mountains.

Impressive.

No. 12 was very ornate and highly polished.

Gorgeous woodwork on this one.

Drumheads.

Vintage marketing poster.

Fine dining car.

Pullman sleeper car.

Debbie checks out one of the little sleeper rooms.

Interior of a "private car," which was kind of like the custom motorhome of its day.

Mail car seen from above looks like a model, but it's full size.

They sorted the mail while the train was in motion.

Pit below this big diesel let you see the underbelly of the beast.

In addition to the real thing, they had models in all scales.

Debbie checks out some of the models behind glass.

The museum's big attaction, one of the giant "cab forward" engines.

No. 4249 from the other end.

Comparison of the three largest steam locomotives.

One of these guys is a mannequin.

"Shaka choo choo"