The Aurora Winter Train makes its Sunday run south just north of Willow. During the winter months until mid-May, this train will depart Anchorage every Saturday morning for Fairbanks and make the... (more)

Export coal snakes south along the Turnagain Arm late in the day just as the sun is hitting the horizon.

Power for export coal backs down the "P Main" to couple to its load after running through the yard. Anchorage received a near-record setting snowfall this year which lead to massive snow piles ar... (more)

A southbound freight is dwarfed by the scenery as it works its way along the Turnagain Arm bound for Whittier. Scenes like this abound in Alaska and it doesn't take long to appreciate how much ma... (more)

A Whittier-bound freight hugs the north shore of the Turnagain Arm and the Seward Highway as it works its way south on a beautiful Spring evening.

ARR 4009 brings up the rear on a 70-car coal train as it heads south near Girdwood. The 7 SD70MACs will be put to the test as the train assaults the 3% grade a little farther down the line.

A quartet of MACs on the head end along with 3 more on the rear leads an export coal train out of the yard in downtown Anchorage for a trip down the Turnagain Arm bound for Seward.

And so my 3-year adventure in Alaska begins! After finishing up at Birchwood, a work trains runs south for Anchorage at a restricted speed to call it a day.

The Pikes Peak Local makes the second of its two weekly runs south on the Joint Line to Colorado Springs. Here the local is creeping into Larkspur on the blocks of a coal train just ahead of it. ... (more)

The blurred mountains in the background and the trailing cars disappearing into the horizon are a testament to the strain it takes to lug coal down the Joint Line. Here UP 6866 leads a 3-2-1 powe... (more)

This re-routed Waycross, GA - New Orleans, LA manifest rolls north through the tiny town of Midland City due to a derailment in Pensacola.

Daily manifest Q681 steams south into Dothan, seen here just a few miles north of the yard.

Coal loads climb the grade through Greenland as they work their way south on the Joint Line.

I got my Christmas present a day late as two SD40-2s lead the Pikes Peak Local south through Colorado Springs literally minutes after a clearing line pushed to the east bathing this scene in sunli... (more)

In your fACe! A rare appearance by a Norfolk Southern ACe on the Joint Line as it steams south into Colorado Springs. We've been seeing an interesting mix of foreign power over the... (more)