A pair of ARR geeps trundle slowly up the yard lead and across C Street on a winter afternoon in Alaska's largest city. They are leading a rare dedicated high-wide special train into town for del... (more)

A pair of ARR geeps arrive Anchorage and are about to diverge onto the yard lead at CP 1140. They are leading a rare dedicated high-wide special train into town for delivery to the Northstar Term... (more)

This was my first time on the Olympic Peninsula and was largely a non-railfanning trip. But one does diverge when the opportunity arises, and I took a few minutes to explore the remnants of a the... (more)

A 1955 GMD veteran of CN heritage squeezes through the steep rock cut at the Gateway approaching MP 85 (from Portland ) and the top of the grade on the former Maine Central Mountain Sub. During R... (more)

Barge Time = Train Time! - A UP Seattle based yard crew is in the process of stripping the weekly Alaska Railroad barge that has arrived from the 49th State. Three barges owned and operate... (more)

Alaskan Outpost - While few people realize it, the ARR does own trackage outside the Last Frontier. Not much though! The ARR owns the barge slip on Harbor Island in Seattle that they use ... (more)

It is one day shy of a full moon on a spectacular clear and cold night in the last frontier. Three SD70MACs repose outside on the fuel rack adjacent the ARR's full service shop. At 5:30 PM in Al... (more)

It is one day shy of a full moon on a spectacular clear and cold night in the last frontier. A mixed consist of a GP38-2 a GP40-2 and an SD70MAC sit on the head end of a southbound mixed freight ... (more)

Back in 2009 this was still a common sight in the White Mountains. The twin ex CN FP9s had been standard power since 1995 hauling the Conway Scenic's tourist trains from this depot north and west... (more)

The Floating Train Has Arrived! A UP Seattle based yard crew has just begun the delicate process of stripping the weekly Alaska Railroad barge that has arrived from the 49th State. Three ... (more)

Geep Trifecta! It's getting harder and harder to find a three scheme consist on the ARR these days as only three units still wear their as delivered 1970s black and gold from the days of f... (more)

An ARR yard job trundles south at MP 119.8 on the ARR mainline crossing the Davis Hwy. on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The gondolas were loaded with contaminated dirt from the military base t... (more)

shrouded Wai'anae Mountain Range. The 3 ft gauge rails embedded in the crossing once made up part of the branch that split from the OR&L mainline at Nanakuli (MP 27.6) and climbed inland to the U... (more)

The Hawaiian Railway Society's 3 PM Sunday excursion is just departing from the halfway point of its out and back run. This location is MP 24.6 (from Honolulu) on the former OR&L and just over 7 ... (more)

Narrow gauge 65 tonner #174 is a former US Navy locomotive who served her entire career on Oahu. Built in April 1945 she and two sisters were the largest diesel locomotives ever used in Hawaii. ... (more)