A couple of tunnel motors are being used to put together the CV Local to run to Price and then the CV Spur to do some local work. These two units were part of the dirt train earlier and are now pu... (more)

Although the winters are long and often difficult from both a weather and a train perspective there are benefits. One such benefit is that you do not have to drag yourself out of bed at an early h... (more)

A few years ago UP ran an Operation Life Saver special on the former Rio Grande Craig Branch. A friend and I drove up the night before and took a few night photos in the Phippsburg Yard. The next ... (more)

As the Coastal Classic makes the station stop at Girdwood what started as a dreary rain filled morning suddenly takes a turn for the better as a rainbow brings the promise of sun.

A couple of MACs have just left the mainline at Portage and have entered the Whittier Branch. In the next 12 miles this train will pass through two tunnels, one of which the railroad shares with a... (more)

As the West Local shoves back on the Rocky Spur a loaded coal train rolls past the east switch of Rocky with North Yard 18 miles ahead.

A quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors including my favorite, 5355, because of a cab ride I received on the Craig Branch, have a coal train in tow near the site of Mill Fork on Rio Grande's Soldier... (more)

Well, summer is over in Alaska and the passenger season is just about to end as well. With that in mind and a nice evening for photography I went out and captured a few end of season shots. The Gl... (more)

On a very cold morning, -20 degrees, the Fairbanks yard sends a yard job the 15 or so miles to the North Pole to deliver some fuel cars to the former refinery now distribution center. Seen here at... (more)

SD70MAC 4005, a Mac from Alaska Railroads first order, heads up an empty coal train at the junction to the Palmer Branch. Coal has really seen a resurgence on the Alaska Railroad.

The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce charter train is southbound near Girdwood on an absolutely stunning Friday fall afternoon. This train would meet a manifest train off the barge at Whittier at Por... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s switch the CN Barge at the old Whittier slip. This piece of the railroad has been totally rebuilt and offers a more efficient way to load/unload the barges that supply the Alaska... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning an early morning manifest is climbing the west side of Maria Pass on what would be a busy day of photography.

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)

LS&I 2400 sits in front of the Eagle Mills yard office. Soon 2400 and two sisters will depart with a train of empties headed for the loadout on this bitterly cold day. In fact as a Californian th... (more)