The Alaska Railroad runs gravel trains for two different customers. Each is 86 hoppers in length. However this train for Quality Asphalt Products, shortened to QAP on the RR, runs in DP mode 1+1. ... (more)
The 80 car empty QAP gravel train is rolling north in downtown Anchorage at MP 115.1 on the ARR's Alaska Division mainline. This bucolic scene is right in the heart of downtown where the railroad... (more)