With a friendly wave from the engineer and with moments to spare before the sun falls below the horizon, the northbound Anchorage to Fairbanks freight glides across the Matanuska River.
One of the few unpatched SP AC4400CWs lead this Texas bound coal load over BNSF trackage rights and through the small town of Navarre where the railroad tracks split a grain elevator complex.
After adding a three unit set of MRL SD70ACes to the rear end of the train and the subsequent set and release, this westbound Kansas City to Pasco high priority manifest pulls out of Livingston an... (more)