Snow Fighting - Alaska Style! - The "snow fleet" is climbing slowly up the nearly 2.2% grade enroute to tunnel with Jordan Spreader #7 leading, trailed by two geeps and a depressed center f... (more)

Snow Fighting - Alaska Style! - The "snow fleet" is heading back south with the Jordan Spreader trailing two geeps in this southward looking view. The train is framed by the glacier fed Pl... (more)

Snow Fighting - Alaska Style! - The "snow fleet" has arrived with a Jordan Spreader, two geeps, and the ARR's sole depressed center flat car carrying a big Caterpillar excavator. Spencer i... (more)

Snow Fighting - Alaska Style! - The "snow fleet" has arrived with a Jordan Spreader, two geeps, and the ARR's sole depressed center flat car. Here one of the ARR's skilled operators ginger... (more)

While the rest of the world is enjoying spring it is still very much winter in Alaska! The "snow fleet" consisting of a GP38-2 back to back with a GP40-2 is pushing Jordan Spreader #7 and pulling... (more)

An Anchorage yard job trundles through the still substantial snow on this last day of March. The vintage black geep is swapping a load for an empty on this little spur that sits adjacent the main... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! The first mixed train to run on the ARR in over three decades is crossing the Talkeetna spur road and beginning to slow for its scheduled station stop. Rising behind the ... (more)

The 1909 built Alco simmers in the dark recesses of the NNRy's engine house on a cold snowy night in February. Steve Crise and the NNRy crew have recreated a classic scene for those fortunate enou... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! The first mixed train to run on the ARR in over three decades is highballing north at track speed rolling through the junction at NSS Matanuska (MP 151.4 on the ARR mainl... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! A going away look at the tail end of the first mixed train to run on the ARR in over three decades as it slows for its pending station stop. Three SD70MACs lead a 2300 ft... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! The first mixed train to run on the ARR in over three decades is highballing north at track speed as it leans into the curve a couple miles south of Montana siding. Thre... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! In an historic first, due to changing traffic patterns the ARR has chosen to exercise its FRA waiver to run mixed trains consisting of revenue passenger and haz-mat freigh... (more)

Mixed Train 2009! In an historic first, due to changing traffic patterns the ARR has chosen to exercise its FRA waiver to run mixed trains consisting of revenue passenger and haz-mat freigh... (more)

The eye plays tricks on you in this view from the engineer's seat. The mirror reflect the three trailing geeps and a long string of tank cars in adjacent track 1 while that same string blends ev... (more)

"Alaskan Agriculture" - Now how is that for an oxymoron? This hopper is one of two that wear this unique paint scheme. A small fleet was purchased in the early 1980s to support export fro... (more)