Photos by J.W. Snyder

A seasoned crew works UP 670 GP40 pulling a mix consist, headin the last couple of miles south to UP's Sacramento yard (former WP) having just crossed the American River. The brakeman on point enjoys the cooler autumn air, a nice break from the hot summers of the valley. October 1997.

Having finished moving a consist of tank cars and some empty grainers down from Kane, ALY GP40 102 On the point of the gang of four, sits tied down at the yard and headquarters in Warren, PA on a summer evening in 1992.

Sitting idle in Dutchman's cut, ACL 2-6-0 Camelback, recently purchased and cleaned up by Brownfield Granite, awaits the next move on the newly laid spur up to the quarry. This is part of the layout being built by J.W. Snyder.

Hoping to lead another Conrail executive train, E8-A 4020 kicks up her heels (couplers) on its own track next to the Juniata Miscellaneous Shop 2 looking splendid in her Pensy Pullman Green , she was after all an original member of the great Pensy fleet. In that summer of 1998 she basked in the sunset oblivious of what was to come the next year.

With an exuberant wave a young engineer celebrates his first time through the BN's 7.8 mile Cascade tunnel. C30-7 #5501 seems to cough out the last of its regurgitated exhaust from the tunnel as the train drifts downgrade to Seattle in May of 1992.

Outlasting most of her sister E8s, UP E8 A 951 plies the rails at track speed pulling an Operation Lifesaver excursion from Seattle Interbay yard to the Auburn yard junction for the Stampede pass. It is a rare sunny afternoon in the late summer of 1995 but time seems to shift back to the days of the "City of Portland".