In 2008 I made three trips to Alaska. This shot was taken on the last day of my second trip. In the very last moments of sunshine the Glacier Discovery rolls through the Girdwood Valley. In just s... (more)

With the export coal market all but dead I was thankfully surprised to learn we would soon be running a few trains of export coal from Usibelli for a customer in Japan, I believe. In any event the... (more)

The sun has yet to clear the Chugach Mountains but by all accounts it looks to be a beautiful start to the day. The company work train is backing out of Brookman Siding at MP 82 on the Kenai Sub. ... (more)

The company work train is loading rock on the mainline at Bird Point. After completing their loading they will run up the hill to MP 59 and dump, then repeat. Spring has arrived in the Last Fronti... (more)

An Alaska Railroad train passes through Denali National Park near Riley Creek.

The Alaska State Fair is a two week long annual celebration that punctuates the end of summer in the 49th State. The fairgrounds in Palmer sit right beside the ARR's normally freight only branch ... (more)

Fall is short in the last frontier and the opportunity to shoot trains in brilliant colors is limited to a week or maybe two at best. With passenger service cut back from daily in each direction ... (more)

Passenger season is two weeks from the end as the Alaska Railroad's premier train, the Denali Start rolls south about 45 min from the its destination of Anchorage after an all day 12 hr run from F... (more)

On a splendid long summer say there is plenty of light for shooting photos of the nightly freight trains. Here on Saturday afternoon a monster Anchorage to Fairbanks freight 130N is seen crossing... (more)

At the time standard power for Alaska's coal trains were six of their GP 49's all on the head end as shown northbound near Knik River.

Alaska RR main Fairbanks to Anchorage passenger train was unnamed on my June '94 visit and is shown southbound near Eklutna.

Three Alaska Railroad SD70MACs tag along on the rear of a southbound loaded export coal train at Girdwood, Alaska on a warm and clear late summer day in September 2010.

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)

Perhaps the most spectacular bridge on the Alaska Railroad is the one spanning Hurricane Gulch around MP 284. It is a signature location on the railroad and one of my personal favorites as well. T... (more)

In most cases a barge docking in Whittier will generate two trains in each direction. The first train south from Anchorage will be powered by Geeps. Upon arrival in Whittier the crew will tie thei... (more)