The clouds are just starting to break up and allow just a sliver of sunshine to meekly light the scene. 4319 leads 87 cars for the dock at Whittier, it is rather rare to catch a solid manifest on ... (more)

Heading for the Hills

The Alaska Railroad dispatched a "snow fleet" work extra consisting of two GP40-2s pushing Harsco/Jordan Spreader 9 south to Portage to begin open... (more)

Sometimes you just get lucky. The snow fleet as it is known on the Alaska Railroad consists of Jordan Spreaders pushed by Geeps. Called to head south to clear the line between Portage and Seward, ... (more)

The Alaska Railroad work train has just set out 3 cars for the B&B gang that will soon start building a new bridge over Indian Creek. With that chore done they head back north with 3006 leading in... (more)

It is the last day of the year in Anchorage, AK. The weather isn't too bad a balmy 14 degrees everything looks good for a railfan photographer, well in most cases anyway, except this is Alaska in ... (more)

Here's my obligatory end of 2016 photo.

Daylight freights are hard to come by this time of year account the tracks between Anchorage and Whittier see an average of only two round trip freig... (more)

Little Train - Great Land!

A pair of SD70MACs lead the short little northbound Saturday Winter Aurora passenger train out of the end of the road village of Talkeetna and into the w... (more)

Back when the days were longer and the hillsides were more colorful I caught a mixed freight of UP/BNSF interchange and COFC coming north from a connection with the AML Barge in Whittier. The tra... (more)

Golden hour light bathes the scene as the Coastal Classic rolls north alongside the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm, slowly clicking off the miles to Anchorage.

A cruise special from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport tops the grade at Divide about 10 miles north of an awaiting Norwegian Cruise Lines ship, safely docked in the lovely small town o... (more)

On a remarkably warn and sunny end to August, a pair of SD70MACs have nearly 8,000 feet of train trailing on the drawbars as they wind their way along the Turnagain Arm.

The Glacier Discovery shoves back through what has to be one of the largest control points in North America after making its station stop at Portage in order to clear the main for a southbound fre... (more)

A special for Norwegian Cruise Lines crosses the Trail River on its journey to Seward and an awaiting cruise ship.

A quiet late August afternoon along Turnagain Arm is briefly interrupted as 120S heads south with barge traffic for Whittier and the Lower 48.

Nearly 9,000 feet of containers and mixed freight are heading to the Lower 48 via an Alaska Marine Lines barge as one of three locomotives left in the original black and yellow paint scheme leads ... (more)