An empty rock train passes the Alaska Railroad downtown station after a crew change.

An Alaskan waterfall awaits you as you emerge from the MP 16 tunnel on the White Pass and Yukon Route north of Skagway, Alaska.

WPY 100 poses with its' train in Skagway, AK in August of 1991. Charles Porter image from my collection.

An 86 car empty gravel train, lead by 5 MACs, crosses the iconic Hurricane Gulch Bridge on the Alaska Railroad. About MP 284 on the railroad and climbing the hill towards the Summit of Broad Pass ... (more)

A passenger train hauled by the WPYR #69 is passing the former American Shed station on its way to the White Pass Summit

A passenger train climbing up from Skagway is crossing the bridge #14-A near the Glacier siding halt on its way to the White Pass summit.

Back home in Skagway. After a full day of plowing between White Pass and Canadian Shed, White Pass Rotary #1 and her consort, Locomotive #73 sit on one of the shop tracks at the Skagway Sho... (more)

Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)

Servicing Stop - Glacier Siding. With roughly 6 miles to go on the journey from Skagway to White Pass, the WPY Rotary Fleet comes to the attention of a servicing crew that has been pre-posi... (more)

Alaska Railroad Alco MRS1 1601 works the roads yard in Anchorage in the summer of 1980. At the time there were several of these former US military units running. there low clearance profile is cle... (more)

Alaska Railway EMD F7A 1530 prepares to depart the station in Anchorage for the Beautiful run to Fairbanks in June of 1980. The 1530 Is the Former Rio Grande 5654. This unit was wrecked in 197... (more)

WPY 97 leads a train full of cruise ship passengers back to Skagway from an excursion on the amazing White Pass & Yukon Route. It's about to stop to collect those that went on the Glacier hike.

After grabbing a shot of this train under cloudy skies at Portage, I like the train headed north for Anchorage. As I got near Girdwood I could see that it was likely the sun would dip below the cl... (more)

Geep Renaissance: The Alaska Railroad powered a rail train with 5 Geeps. Seen here at Brookman with 3 GP40-2s and 2 GP38-2s in 3 separate paint schemes. To make things even better the rear of the ... (more)

3 White Pass and Yukon Route Alcos sitt along a curve waiting for its 2nd round of passengers of the day. The second locomotive recently was sold and shipped off property. It's new owner is anothe... (more)