After dropping off one hopper of feed and one hopper of fertilizer at the Alaska Mill Feed & Garden Center, ARR 3006 leads a lone car across Orca Street on the return trip south back towards the y... (more)

ARR 4011 and five sister MACs lead a long string of empty coal hoppers down the mainline in Anchorage. If you're a fan of EMD and tons of power, you gotta love these coal trains on the Alaska Rai... (more)

The Aurora Winter Train breezes north under the Old Glenn Highway overpass. With the days getting longer, it's easier to catch this train in the Anchorage-area on its departure out of town on Sat... (more)

Feeling a bit ambitious I decided to snow shoe out to this spot where the Alaska Railroad crosses the Knik River on a truss bridge with plenty of mountains and snow in the back ground. I think the... (more)

Crossing 20 Mile River Bridge outside of Portage AK with a train running from Seward to Anchorage.

Running along the Turnagain Arm between Anchorage and Portage, an Alaska RR coal train from Healy to Seward continues its journey south on a chilly March morning.

Alaska Railroad's Aurora Winter Train creeps across Hurricane Gulch, stopping mid span to allow the trainload of passengers a view from the top of this impressive structure.

Rolling through trees killed by a tsunami in 1964, this Seward to Anchorage train approaches Portage Jct. on ARR's Alaska Division.

Coal empties snake north hugging the slim patch of land between the Seward Highway and the icy waters of the Turnagain Arm.

Who doesn't like a 6-pack? Six SD70MACs roll north through Bird Creek with an impressive display of 24,300 horsepower although only the first three units were actually on line. Five of these MAC... (more)

As if chasing a Whittier-bound freight all the way south wasn't enough, there was a coal empty waiting at Portage to chase all the way back north! Often times it can be feast or famine 'fanning t... (more)

Follow us at Alaska Railfanning! ARR 3010 leads a lengthy freight out of the 5,050'-long Portage Tun... (more)

It's springtime in Alaska...wish you were here! But feel free to live vicariously through us at Alaska Railf... (more)

A matched trio of GP40-2s swings around the bend for a jaunt down the straight stretch leading to the siding at Brookman. This is what the first day of spring looks like in Alaska...yeah, we're s... (more)

On another glorious March day in Alaska a southbound manifest bound for Seward skirts the shore of Lower Trail Lake just a few miles south of the tiny berg of Moose Pass, AK. This is a train of em... (more)