Whittier Junction switch with green straight on Alaska Division to Seward and left to the port of Whittier. On the siding is a snow removal MOW train with ARR Jordan Spreader 7, GP38-2 2002, GP40... (more)

The challenges of railroading in Alaska! A little five car charter passenger train rolls north passing the very active slide zone at Kern. The train is slicing through the massive piles of snow ... (more)

Northbound near Portage

The Princess Cruise Train waits for a meet with another passenger train as the morning fog burns off on what would become a very productive day of photography.

It's nearly 9 PM on Thursday evening as this 67 car, 5500 ft. freight reaches the end of the 12 mile long Whittier Division and prepares to enter the Alaska Division mainline at MP 64.3. As the t... (more)

Alaska SD70MACS have a huge train, 7712 feet, headed for the barge in Whittier

Just a few minutes after joining the ARR mainline at Portage [from the Whittier Branch] ARR 4001 leads its northbound freight along the Seward Highway.

The flagship of the Alaska Railroad's SD70MAC fleet, The Spirit of Alaska, leads a northbound Whittier to Anchorage extra freight over Twenty Mile River beneath threatening skies. With 8,30... (more)

Cab shot of ARR Rotary #3 stored in Anchorage yard awaiting donation to a railroad display in Curry, AK. The rotary was built by the Cooke Locomotive Works in 1930 and operated under steam until 1... (more)

ARR Cab/HEP car 31 (former AMTK 244) leads the daily southbound Glacier Discovery train away from Portage.

Looking north from the cupola of ARR caboose #1072 (since scrapped) reposing on a fine summer day on track 3 in the little used Portage Yard. Ahead can be seen caboose #1074 and an old ARR 10800 ... (more)

ARR 4317 leads the Anchorage bound Glacier Discovery train along a marshy area just north of Portage.

Having just completed its station stop at Portage, the nortbound Glacier Discovery Train crosses Twenty Mile Bridge as it heads homeward toward Anchorage amidst the beautiful Alaskan wilder... (more)

Northbound frt from Seward (GP49 2809/SD70MAC 4014) has just changed crews about 50 miles south of Anchorage.

Winter RDC run to Whittier passes trees killed by saltwater incursion after March 1964 earthquake. The town of Portage was abandoned but the rr junction was rebuilt.