The Alaska Railroad is cool in so many different ways that it should come as no surprise that even their Jersey Barriers are cool! The ARR logo is imprinted into these little concrete walls, and ... (more)

An eventual Seward-bound freight pops and hisses in the -16°F morning temps, waiting for a crew to take it on the journey south out of Anchorage. There are few unobstructed views along the Anchor... (more)

BLE 906 and BLE 904 lead 141 ore empties all out through Saginaw.

ARR 4006 leads its 5000' freight over the Snow River, about to tackle the steep 2%-plus grade awaiting it before the final descent in to Seward.

Learn more at Alaska Railfanning! I have absolutely no issue waiting 45 minutes in 0°F temps to capt... (more)

Learn more at Alaska Railfanning! The Spirit of Anchorage leads a 5000' freight train south t... (more)

Check us out at Alaska Railfanning! A charter train for transportation specialists from across the Un... (more)

Join us at Alaska Railfanning! A matched pair of MACs just emerged from the 5,050' long Portage Tunn... (more)

A pair of SD70MACs works south just north of Whittier Junction on their way to Whittier to pick up a train. Summer is most definitely gone in The Last Frontier. While it still looks Autumn'ish i... (more)

Join us at Alaska Railfanning! I was out to catch what I thought was the last gravel train of the se... (more)

Join us at Alaska Railfanning! ARR 4013 leads one of the last gravel trains of the 2012 season south... (more)

Baretables work north through Palmer Puddles behind a pair of Dash 9s.

With a malfunctioning ATCS and my scanner still in Alaska, it was one of those days where the best course of action was to just pick a spot and wait. After helplessly waiting for a couple of hour... (more)

Coal empties work north past the formerly iconic Palmer Lake. It's been an extremely dry summer along the Front Range, so dry that Palmer Lake has evaporated into nothing more than a few puddles ... (more)

All three BNSF heritage/merger schemes are present on this northbound manifest as it works through the Greenland Open Space. It's interesting to note that the H1 paint seems to have held up the b... (more)