An Alaska gravel train traverses the last section of the Palmer Branch and will join the mainline at Matanuska Junction in about a quarter of mile. You can just begin to see the start of the fall ... (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)

Southbound export coal loads twist and turn along the Turnagain Arm at Beluga Point on their trek from Usibelli Mine near Healy to the export coal dock at Seward. The three DPU SD70MACs can be see... (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)

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 curling across the ... (more)

Cats and Geeps - One of the ARR Maintenance of Way department's big excavators sits on a flat car up against the end ramp in Anchorage. Anchorage TOFC employees will unlash and unload the ... (more)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue....and Gold! - This is indeed something new for the ARR. A borrowed three section drawbar connected double stack well car (... (more)