It's just after 10 PM as a northbound freight with 67 cars and well over a mile of freight wends its way north along Turnagain Arm about 16 miles from the end of it's journey in downtown Anchorag... (more)

Sunshine, Snow, Station & Steam - Does it even get any better than this? Throw in some narrow rails and I think this just might be heaven! On the fourth and final day of plowing the White... (more)

The Great One - That's the common interpretation of the native Athabaskan name for Mt. McKinley, North America's highest mountain at 20,320 ft. in elevation. On a clear day the moun... (more)

A visitor from south of the border and a sister from the East Coast look a bit out of place in the winter wonderland that is the west slope of Marias Pass on BNSF's Hi-Line Sub. Regardless, the t... (more)

The long hood from ARR #3001 rests on a company service flat car sitting on the old sand track just north of the ARR diesel shop. The rest of the GP40-2 is in the backshop for heavy repair/rebuil... (more)

It's one of the coldest days of the year so far. -25 when this shot was taken just before 3 PM and the temperature would dip to nearly 40 below zero during the night! Two geeps idle on the main ... (more)

Sometimes mother nature can turn the simplest scene into something spectacular. Getting out of my car to walk to the office one afternoon I was just taken aback by the spectacular cloud formations... (more)

The weather is rainy and foggy all along the railbelt on this Saturday in the Last Frontier, but for a few minutes it is still dry here just north of Broad Pass at MP 305.5 on the Alaska Railroad'... (more)

Former Portland Terminal Alco built in 1950 has long been a staple on the Conway Scenic. Once up for sale, she now has a new lease on life and should remain stabled in the North Country for many ... (more)

Headin' Home - Two of the last three GP40-2s to wear their 1975 as delivered black and yellow paint lead a short 39 car - 3073 ft train north toward Anchorage. The train is at MP F5.7 and... (more)

High Idle - It's 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. A lone yard unit sits outside the south door of roundhouse track 3 idling away i... (more)

Fair Time!

The Alaska State fair is always summer's last big hurrah in the Last Frontier. To help accommodate the 300,000 visitors (equivalent to about half the state's total popu... (more)

Portal to Portal

A 7200 ft long train of mixed manifest and containers off the barge in Whittier is on the move to Anchorage behind consecutively numbered MACs. The heavy train ... (more)

The North FOX (Fairbanks Overnight Express) scurries across the glacier fed Knik River just about 1 hr into its 356 mile and 12 hr journey through the wilderness. The ARR runs the FOX four nights... (more)

The Great Falls yard was referring to this job as the "Lost Local" and on this quiet day after Christmas she owns the mainline as she clips northbound by a couple of classic old grain elevators on... (more)