Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it crosses the icy tidal waters of the Twenty Mile River just a hundred yards or so from it's mouth on Turnagain Arm. The river'... (more)

Three SD70MACs are seen on the rear of a 70 car unit coal train as it wends its way south along the icy cold waters of Turnagain Arm. Across the wide Fjord rises the bulwark of the Kenai Mountain... (more)

An SD70MAC races south leading 5 sisters (two more on the head end and three on the rear) and 70 cars of coal destined to Seward Alaska and a date with a South American bound collier.

It's cold windy and spectacularly beautiful along Turnagain Arm on this Saturday morning. The rocky buttress of the Chugach Mountains and the icy tidal waters make the 70 car unit coal train, bra... (more)

On a cold and windy Saturday an ARR work train pauses along the shore of Turnagain Arm to dump some rip rap. The three GP40-2s provide a history of the ARR in paint - from the austere black and g... (more)

The train has just arrived from Anchorage on a very foggy seaside morning. Most of these passengers are headed for boats that will take them out on Resurrection Bay and the Gulf of Alaska to see ... (more)

On an absolutely stunning Spring morning Alaska Railroad's Coastal Classic rounds Bird Point with the morning train for Seward. The tide is out enabling this view of the train along the shore of T... (more)

During the summer months it is common for the Alaska Railroad to operate as many as three work trains a day. It is necessary to get all of the maintenance done before winter comes and slows things... (more)

The Whittier based extra board crew and their two geeps have made a trip over the mountains from Whittier to retrieve a lone empty flat car off the dock in Seward. They are departing northward an... (more)

The Seward extra board crew is in the process of finishing up dumping 70 cars of coal at Seward. 6 SD70MACs can be seen just about ducking into the dump shack. Beneath the train 12 conveyers sen... (more)

You never know what you might find in the woods of Alaska. Normally you're excited to stumble upon a bear or moose (at safe distance of course) but you rarely expect to find an F-unit! Neverthel... (more)

A yard crew with a "geep sandwich" trundles slowly back north on the ARR mainline. They have a mixed consist of equipment from local industries off the APU Spur and the adjacent mainline. This l... (more)

The northbound DEX (Denali Express) has departed the depot in Anchorage after making a quick crew swap. This dedicated train is run every Saturday and Monday in the summer serving Princess Cruise... (more)

ARR 2007 and 2003 departing Eielson AFB with a string of empty hoppers from the base power plant not long after delivering full hoppers.

Alaska Railroads Coastal Classic skirts Turnagain Arm at Milepost 91 just north of Indian. During the summer months this is a fantatsic train to start the day with and makes a fine chase between A... (more)