This gets complicated. These are indeed two Alaska Railroad FP7As, 1506/1508, but they aren't in Alaska. They're working on the Dry Valley Railroad, a phosphate mining shortline a dozen or so mile... (more)

An Alaska Railroad coal train rolls through the tiny berg of Indian along Turnagain Arm. The rails and highway both follow the contours of the shoreline and one can look across the bay and see the... (more)

Alaska Railroad SD70MAC crosses Glacier Creek just a half mile south of Girdwood. In the background are the Chugach Mountains. Some of Alaskas best skiing is in these mountains at Mt. Alyeska Ski ... (more)

My first visit to Alaska in the winter produced a great week of clear skies and cold temperatures. The first train I saw on this trip was a southbound coal train bound for export via the Seward Co... (more)

An Alaska coal trains winds its way along Turnagain Arm in the Beluga Block in a 3+3+1 configuration. While the railroad is flat here the extra horsepower will be needed to climb Grandview and Div... (more)

The Name Says It All! - The aptly named Aqua Train is owned and operated by CN to provide interchange service with the Alaska Railroad. CN owns the barge and loads it at Prince Rupert, BC... (more)

The Name Says It All! - The aptly named Aqua Train is owned and operated by CN to provide interchange service with the Alaska Railroad. CN owns the barge and loads it at Prince Rupert, BC... (more)

The new face of Whittier - A pair of ARR Geeps in "heritage" paint are reaching onto the slip with a "handle" of idler cars to begin pulling the "Aqua Train." CN owns the barge and loads i... (more)

A Seward-bound ARR Cruise Train skirts the Upper Trail Lake at Moose Pass, Alaska on a beautiful late summer day as a few flyers are about to take a Cessna float plane up for a flight in the foreg... (more)

It's just another typical day in Whittier - meaning it's foggy and wet. This isolated little community some 70 rail miles from Anchorage is the ARR's gateway to the outside world through it's bar... (more)

It's shortly after 10 PM in the Land of the Midnight Sun and shooting is just starting to get a little difficult with some shadows creeping onto the right of way. An 86 car southbound loaded grav... (more)

Shortly after meeting sister #4325 on the southbound Star at Reves siding the ARR's nightly Anchorage-Fairbanks freight (known colloquially as the OX) is seen wheeling around a sweeping curve righ... (more)

It's Friday afternoon on a spectacular summer evening at about 1945 as the southbound Denali Star sweeps around a gentle two degree curve as it gets ready to accelerate back to 60 MPH for the las... (more)

It is a spectacular clear and bright early fall day in the Last Frontier and the birch trees are have already turned and the higher peaks of the Chugach are already dusted in show. This shot was ... (more)

Wasilla!? - Long before the rest of the world knew about this place (for good or ill depending on your political persuasion) Wasilla was a one time sleepy Alaskan town now up and coming as ... (more)