A local rolls through the Christmas theme village of North Pole Alaska on its way south to work the refinery in town and a power plant at the Eielson Air Force Base further down the branch. Wildfire smoke was quite thick here on this day.
Coal and steel don't go bad. This album features long, slow, heavy freight trains; drag freights, slop freights, dead freights, etc. Trains with lots of power, and lots of different cargo slogging along behind.