Brakey - Brakeman Dave Dobbs prepares to alight from coach #256 bringing up the rear of the five car "chase train" which took the hole here at Glacier so that the rotary fleet could pull up... (more)

Cliff Hanging! - The White Pass & Yukon's "rotary fleet" consisting of vintage snowplow #3 (Cooke - 1899) is marching upgrade trailed by twin steam locomotives #73 (Baldwin 2-8-2 blt. 5-47)... (more)

Snow Fleet - 1940s style! - In fact were it not for the "modern" #73 steam locomotive pushing this could be titled "1920s style." White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary plow #3 (... (more)

In Search of Snow! - White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary snow plow #3 (Cooke 1899) is departing Glacier and crossing the curved trestles as it marches upgrade. This location i... (more)

What a sight! - White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary snow plow #3 (Cooke 1899) is arriving at Glacier siding (14.1 miles from and 1871 ft higher than Skagway) pushed by steam lo... (more)

Railroading at 30 below! - A pair of GP38s lug a long string of loaded tank cars over the Chena River bridge on their way back from North Pole (home of the Flint Hills Refinery - ARR's larg... (more)

Arctic Railroading - Well, not quite. Fairbanks is 125 miles south of the arctic circle, but with temperatures dipping routinely to 30 or 40 below zero you wouldn't know the difference! I... (more)

Railroading at 30-below! - It is 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. A lone yard unit is coupled to a long string of TOFC flats and h... (more)

High Idle - It's 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. A lone yard unit sits outside the south door of roundhouse track 3 idling away i... (more)

Arctic Moonrise - It's 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. The 2001 and GP40-2 3011 have just returned from a two day journey from An... (more)

Alaskan Heritage - The hoar frost clings to everything as the mercury hovers just south of -30 degrees Fahrenheit, not exactly the best day for a stroll around Pioneer Park, which was under... (more)

On a dreary windswept Sunday afternoon while driving back north from Girdwood after a nice weekend getaway I happened upon a 70 car southbound loaded export coal train. The train is moving along ... (more)

Big Time Railroading - Seward Style - Big time has not been associated with Seward in decades, at least not since the heady days of the pipeline construction. Freight operations in Seward ... (more)

Sunrise in Seward - A pair of SD70MACs sit on the Jesse Lee main at the north end of Seward yard just south of the airport road crossing. They arrived the prior evening on a 7000 ft contai... (more)

Three SD70MACs lead 92 loads and just shy of 7000 ft. of flat cars consisting of southbound containers for the Northland Services barge connection in Seward. This big train is in the teeth of the... (more)