It's still nearly a month away from the summer solstice yet at 1:30 in the morning it never gets truly pitch dark for one to practice their night shooting skills. The sky takes on some rich hues o... (more)

Symmetry in Steel - On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, the rear helpers on Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load can be seen after emerging from 3009 ft. Thistle Tu... (more)

Now THAT's what I call exhaust - even an Alco would be jealous! A pair of geeps sit on the "mainline" in front of the Fairbanks yard office humming away in high idle working hard just to ... (more)

It's cold windy and spectacularly beautiful along Turnagain Arm on this Saturday morning. The 70 car unit coal train is headed to Seward, but before reaching that tidewater community two brutal mo... (more)

Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it coils around a curve and heads toward the Twenty Mile River and the marshy flats around Portage. On the head end of this trai... (more)

Three SD70MACs are coiling their way south with 70 loads of coal and 3 more MACs on the rear trailing obediently behind. Just about 40 miles out of Anchorage - the crew has been enjoying a flat wa... (more)

Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it crosses the icy tidal waters of the Twenty Mile River just a hundred yards or so from it's mouth on Turnagain Arm. The river'... (more)

Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it wends its way south along the icy cold waters of Turnagain Arm. Across the wide Fjord rises the bulwark of the Kenai Mountain... (more)

An SD70MAC races south leading 5 sisters (two more on the head end and three on the rear) and 70 cars of coal destined to Seward Alaska and a date with a South American bound collier.

It's cold windy and spectacularly beautiful along Turnagain Arm on this Saturday morning. The rocky buttress of the Chugach Mountains and the icy tidal waters make the 70 car unit coal train, bra... (more)

On a cold and windy Saturday an ARR work train pauses along the shore of Turnagain Arm to dump some rip rap. The three GP40-2s provide a history of the ARR in paint - from the austere black and g... (more)

The Whittier based extra board crew and their two geeps have made a trip over the mountains from Whittier to retrieve a lone empty flat car off the dock in Seward. They are departing northward an... (more)

The Seward extra board crew is in the process of finishing up dumping 70 cars of coal at Seward. 6 SD70MACs can be seen just about ducking into the dump shack. Beneath the train 12 conveyers sen... (more)

You never know what you might find in the woods of Alaska. Normally you're excited to stumble upon a bear or moose (at safe distance of course) but you rarely expect to find an F-unit! Neverthel... (more)

A yard crew with a "geep sandwich" trundles slowly back north on the ARR mainline. They have a mixed consist of equipment from local industries off the APU Spur and the adjacent mainline. This l... (more)