It's getting late in the tourist season and the Denali Star is showing it with a rather short train, seen here about to pull off the main track and into the depot in downtown Anchorage.
A freight train bound for Whittier pops out of the 5,050'-long Portage Tunnel and into Bear Valley behind a classic black and yellow GP40-2. As an interesting note to this photo, take a look at t... (more)
6 Locs on one photo: ARR-Meeting in the yard at Anchorage. We are arriving with the Denali Star, I am standing on the open deck in the second double-stock car
ARR-Meeting in Whittier early in the morning. The train in the background waits until the conductor has changed the switch. This train will pick up the passengers from the cruise ship 'Island Prin... (more)
You see a locomotive, and I see a movie star. Runaway Train is one of my favorite movies, and not just because it starred four locomotives racing through the Alaska wilderness at high speed. Rid... (more)