The Glacier Discovery returns home to Anchorage after another day spent bouncing around between Whittier, Portage, and Grandview.

16,300 horsepower throttle up as they head north with a long Anchorage-to-Fairbanks freight seen here between Elmendorf AFB and Fort Richardson.

On a beautiful evening following days of rain the returning Glacier Discovery rolls by McHugh Creek. This stretch of roadway, railway and shoreline is one of the most scenic in Alaska and because ... (more)

So far this summer the Anchorage area is off to a wet start with plenty of rain and more in the forecast. So, in searching the archives I found this shot of a southbound coal train at Bird Point o... (more)

The Alaska Railroad is served by two barges in Whittier, the CN Barge see photo #486721, and the ARMS Barge from Seattle. While the CN barge makes an appearance about every 10 days the ARMS Barge ... (more)

The deck of the CN Barge as well as the CN tug just prior to beginning the loading process. This barge is a bit unusual as it actually contains a switch on the deck. The CN Barge makes a round tri... (more)

This would be the last coal train for a couple as the weather changed, the rains came and the railroad suffered a washout at MP 59.7 suspending service to Seward for a bit while the line was repai... (more)

In 2008 the Alaska Railroad was still using cabooses on the rear of the daily gravel trains, as seen here as the AS&G gravel train rolls off the Palmer Branch and onto the mainline at Matanuska Ju... (more)

The daily Glacier Discovery is dwarfed by the massively majestic scenery of Bear Valley as it exits Portage Tunnel and over Placer Creek.

The Glacier Discovery is seen here crossing Twentymile River near Portage with ARR 3007 leading the way.

The company work train traverses the south leg of the Portage wye en-route to MP 49 where they will begin dumping some ballast to begin their work train season. The south end of the railroad recei... (more)

A regular operation on the north end of the Alaska Railroad is the local coal. This is a train that departs Fairbanks 5 days a week and heads to the mine at Usibelli loads. This train serves 4 or ... (more)

The daily Glacier Discovery runs south at Beluga Point with a rather short train. This was a busy morning with 8 trains passing in or out of Anchorage in just 5 hours, a welcome feeling of glutto... (more)

After arriving from the south, it's time to add some passengers and change crews for this pull-pull cruise train before it heads north to McKinley. This train will come back south to Whittier and... (more)

ARR 4006 and 16,000 total horsepower leads the Anchorage-to-Fairbanks freight north deep within Fort Richardson.