The sun is still powerful enough to still light the mountains in the background but is too low in the sky to light the valley floor. A coal train enroute to Seward will leave the highway behind an... (more)
Alaskan Coal! The mid train DPU helpers can be seen 37 cars back cut into the train in this view from the second of 3-MACs (ARR 4004, 4012, 4328) on the head end of this 10,765 ton loaded c... (more)
This view looks back railroad north from the second of three units on the head end of a southbound unit export coal train. The head end is passing beneath one of the most dangerous areas on the e... (more)
The mid train DPU helpers can be seen 37 cars back cut into the train in this view from the second of 3-MACs (ARR 4004, 4012, 4328) on the head end of this 10,765 ton loaded coal train. The three... (more)
The mid train DPU helpers can be seen framed in the fireman's side window of SD70MAC 4004 which is the second of 3-MACs on the head end of this 10,765 ton loaded coal train. The 74 car train is w... (more)
Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3014 is about to enter Portage Tunnel with a freight headed for the Rail Marine Barge at Whittier. Along side the railroad is Portage River often filled with glacial ice thi... (more)
Deep in the Chugach Mountains on the ARR's remote "tunnel district" veteran Conductor Ron Miller can be seen getting ready to "line behind" to let his train, the regular daily southbound Coastal C... (more)
