What do you run through the depot just as #2 to Fairbanks is scheduled to depart? - about 100 cars of gravel! 1508, 1502 and 2402 sit awhile as their departure is delayed 10 minutes as 3011, 3016 ... (more)

At first the seven engines with coal cars fooled me. I had never seen that much power on an empty coal drag. I soon heard that it was 185. It had picked up the coal cars to return them to Williams... (more)

On a cold crisp Saturday afternoon an ARR company work train clips south along the ARR mainline enroute to Portage to set out some cars before turning around and coming back north. The three GP40... (more)

It's cold windy and spectacularly beautiful along Turnagain Arm on this Saturday morning. The 70 car unit coal train is headed to Seward, but before reaching that tidewater community two brutal mo... (more)

Three SD70MACs are coiling their way south with 70 loads of coal and 3 more MACs on the rear trailing obediently behind. Just about 40 miles out of Anchorage - the crew has been enjoying a flat wa... (more)

Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it crosses the icy tidal waters of the Twenty Mile River just a hundred yards or so from it's mouth on Turnagain Arm. The river'... (more)

On a cold and windy Saturday an ARR work train pauses along the shore of Turnagain Arm to dump some rip rap. The three GP40-2s provide a history of the ARR in paint - from the austere black and g... (more)

The Seward extra board crew is in the process of finishing up dumping 70 cars of coal at Seward. 6 SD70MACs can be seen just about ducking into the dump shack. Beneath the train 12 conveyers sen... (more)

ARR 2007 and 2003 departing Eielson AFB with a string of empty hoppers from the base power plant not long after delivering full hoppers.

A shot probably not obtainable nowadays due to security issues, 2808 and 2806 rumble through the Elmendorf Air Force Base grounds with a southbound gravel train during late evening in August 1985.... (more)

On a beautiful first day in Alaska 2009 a northbound coal empty is at milepost 64, Portage, Alaska. Lead MAC 4013 is from the Alaska RRs first order while 4317 is from the second order. The most n... (more)

NS 9412 rolls south under the classic IC signals at Gilman, about to take the connection and head for the Gibson City line.

On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon a company work train heads south to shuffle some cars at Portage and set up equipment for next week's work on the south end of the ARR. Leading the way is a spark... (more)

A Seward bound freight curls south rounding Bird Point as some low clouds hang over the waters of Turnagain Arm beyond. This train features a slug of traffic for Whittier which will be set off at... (more)

Grab shots from a moving train rarely seem to work, however this shot, grabbed near Healy, two and a half hours south of Fairbanks, while riding #2 from Anchorage, netted over half of the ARR GP49... (more)