ARR 2003 sits while the crew swaps to the other locomotive as the switching work continues outside of the refinery in North Pole Alaska.

A local rolls through the Christmas theme village of North Pole Alaska on its way south to work the refinery in town and a power plant at the Eielson Air Force Base further down the branch. Wildfi... (more)

After working the refinery complex just south of North Pole, the local comes back onto the mainline to grab a cut of coal hoppers to take further south on the Eielson Branch.

Alaska Railroad 3003 arrives in North Pole with a special passenger train for the 2013 convention of the National Railway Historical Society. The sign is normally parallel to the tracks, but to ge... (more)