The daily BPRR freight splits a pair of decommisioned signals which leave little doubt as to the heritage of this line. The B&P 451 is dead due to a blown crankshaft just north of town... to quot... (more)

Springtime in Alaska! Three SD70MACs shove north up the south end of the Anchorage yard lead and around the loop toward the port to deliver their train load of refined petroleum products to the F... (more)

A P&LE empty hopper train rolls southbound between Glassport and Elizabeth, PA (Pollock) on the P&LE's Monongahela Branch. The hoppers are destined to Brownsville and the southwestern PA coalfield... (more)

It's 0:37 AM. No more passenger trains until 4:30, but this is the time for freight traffic to begin. The usually process for freights is to pass the stations, but of course sometimes they need to... (more)

The dead trees testament to the extent of "Lake Thistle" from a couple of years previously, a westbound freight snakes its way down Spanish Fork Canyon behind 5401 and 5355 as it heads on the new ... (more)

It's just after 10 PM as a northbound freight with 67 cars and well over a mile of freight wends its way north along Turnagain Arm about 16 miles from the end of it's journey in downtown Anchorag... (more)

ARR 4011 approaches Matanuska Jct. where the branch to Palmer curls off for its name sake city.

On a typical Nortwest day, the last EMD-owned SD60 Demo, still in its 24-years-young EMD Demo paint, leads the Everett - Pasco manifest southbound down the Seattle Sub towards Vancouver.

Because of the quagmire that is Alaska massive quantities of gravel is required in order to build anything. Hence during the construction season the Alaska Railroad runs three gravel trains a day.... (more)

After leaving U.S. Steel's Minntac facility, DM&IR 403 smokes it up and looks good on the point of this steaming pellet train bound for Two Harbors. A nearby detector reported -7 degrees, that mi... (more)

A pair of UP AC's drag Cumberland to Willard freight Q353 up Sand Patch grade along the banks of Wills Creek.

Two CP units lead the second Easport - Hinkle manifest trains gingerly across the massive Joso bridge spanning the Snake River.

Mckinley Explorer meets a southbound freight.

3 SD60's - two "normal" Oakways units and a 2 window M version lead the "Northtown - Pasco" into the siding at Sprague for a meet with the V-PTLBLU8-15A. Due to 103+ degree temperatures, the NTWP... (more)

Continuously welded rail is a rarity on the Alaska Railroad, but this stretch of track between Potter and Girdwood has recently been rebuilt, allowing the railroad to put ribbon rail and a class 1... (more)